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CONGRATULATIONS, LOVE.OKAY, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, UH, JUST FOR OUR PUBLIC SPEAKERS, DUE TO THE SETUP OF THE ROOM, WE ARE ASKING WHEN YOU COME UP TO SPEAK, YOU CAN COME RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE.
UM, EVERYBODY ON THE STAGE, IF THERE IS SOME SORT OF EMERGENCY OR A FIRE, WE WOULD JUST ASK THAT YOU USE THE OUTSIDE, UM, AISLES TO GET OUTSIDE OF THE DOORS.
UM, AND IF YOU ARE A PUBLIC SPEAKER, PLEASE JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU SIGN IN PRIOR TO US CALLING YOU TO SPEAK.
YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO ADDRESS, UH, THE CHAIR.
UM, AND I WILL HAND IT OVER TO HER TO BEGIN WITH THE AGENDA.
OKAY, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD.
WE, UM, IT APPEARS WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC SPEAKER.
IF YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND, UM, COME UP TO THE MIC AND MAYBE THE
NO, I CAN'T COME UP WHEN I DO THESE TO YOU.
YOU GOTTA HAVE THESE HANDOUTS.
YOU, IT SAYS THE PAGE, IT'S MOSTLY
OH, UH, BEFORE THAT CAN I ACTUALLY HAVE YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND YOUR TOPIC, PLEASE? UH, MY NAME AND WHAT, UH, TOPIC.
CAT, P AND R PROBLEM, THE RESPONSIBLE DALLAS PEOPLE.
OKAY, MS. RYAN, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME NOW.
THIS IS MY THIRD MEETING, MY SECOND ONE TO TALK.
EVERYBODY ELSE HAS LOST FAITH.
THEY TOLD ME IT'S JUST BANGING THEIR HEAD UP AGAINST THE WALL.
AND I SAID, GUYS, WE'VE GOTTA TRY.
YOU GOTTA, YOU GOTTA ASK AND LET 'EM KNOW YOU ANYWAY.
NO ONE'S HERE ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY TOLD ME TO JUST GIVE UP AND I'M NOT GONNA GIVE UP BECAUSE ON PAGE ONE, I'M DOING THIS IN HONOR OF AMANDA SMITH, OUR RESCUER AND FRIEND WHO DIED IN THE ACCIDENT IN NOVEMBER, TRANSPORTING THE CATS TO SBCA.
AND I PROMISED HER I'LL KEEP FIGHTING, SO I'M GONNA DO THIS FOR HER.
UM, I DON'T, I DON'T, I'M NOT GONNA GO OVER THE SAME THING BECAUSE Y'ALL KNOW WHY I'M HERE.
'CAUSE DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES OR DALLAS DOESN'T HAVE PROPER COMMUNITY.
CAT T AND R PROGRAM, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
WE ARE ALL EXHAUSTED STANDING FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AT TCAP FROM SPAY NEUTER WAITING, GET ONE OF 12 SLOTS.
IF YOU DON'T GET THAT SLOT, YOU RACE UP TO ALLEN OR YOU GO TO HER, OR YOU GO HERE, YOU GO THERE.
AFTER AMANDA'S ACCIDENT, TRANSPORTING EIGHT CATS, WE ALL HAD A WAKE UP CALL.
THAT'S US IN THE MORNING AT 4:00 AM DRIVING AROUND TRYING TO GET A SPOT AND IT'S GOTTA STOP.
WE, WE NEED Y'ALL TO GET A PARTNERSHIP, PLEASE, WITH OPERATION KINDNESS OR SPCA.
BEFORE CO WE WOULD GO TO SPCA BETWEEN 7 30, 8 30, DROP OFF, COME BACK AT THREE AND PICK UP.
WE HAD, WE HAD A LIFE AND WE DON'T HAVE THAT ANYMORE.
AND I KEEP COMING HERE AND I'M GOING TO BE A BROKEN RECORD 'CAUSE IT'S ALL I EVER TALK ABOUT.
WE'VE BEEN SAYING NO ONE SHOWS UP ANYMORE.
'CAUSE THEY TOLD ME IT'S USELESS THAT NOTHING GETS DONE AND NOTHING CHANGES.
SO I'M HERE AND I JUST, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE LEFT, BUT ON PAGE FOUR, THERE'S A SCREENSHOT OF WHAT I REALLY WANNA STRESS, THE FOUR CITIZENS OF DALLAS.
THERE'S A LITTLE SCREENSHOT FROM MOISES.
THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD TO BE IN LINE AT 4:00 AM THEY, THEY THEY LOOK AT THE WEBSITE SAYS AN HOUR BEFORE OPENING.
SO ALL THESE PEOPLE, HE'S DOING 17 CATS AND HE'S SHOWING UP AT THESE PLACES AND HE IS TURNED AWAY.
IF YOU READ THE SCREENSHOT, HE, HE WAS SAVED
BUT MY POINT IS THERE ARE A HUNDRED MOISES DALLAS PEOPLE TRYING TO HELP, TRYING TO DO STUFF WITH YOU GUYS, TRYING TO BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, JUST DOING NOTHING AND BLAMING DALLAS ALLEN SERVICES ALL THE TIME.
SO I'M ASKING YOU TO TRY TO DO SOMETHING, SOME KIND OF PROGRAM SO THAT MOISES AND ALL THESE OTHER CITIZENS THAT ARE TRYING TO HELP, THAT WANT TO BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION AND DO THIS, THEY HAVE A PLACE TO GO.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.
IT'S MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHS, UM, OF THE SPCA FLIGHT PROGRAM THAT AMANDA'S KILLED TRANSPORTING CATS TO THE SPCA.
AND WITHOUT THAT, LIKE TWICE A MONTH, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET 2000 CATS A HUNDRED GALLONS.
LAST YEAR THEY'VE DONE 4,000 SO FAR WE DO THIS EVERY TWO WEEKS.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
JUST TRYING TO HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE CAN GET SOME KIND OF COMMUNITY CAT TNR PROGRAM FOR US.
EXHAUSTED PEOPLE AND ALSO THE CITIZENS.
SEE IF WE CAN DO AN OFFICIAL ROLL CALL AND THEN WE CAN MOVE TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
UM, CAN EVERYBODY GO AROUND THE ROOM? LET'S START WITH COMMISSIONER
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SANDERS, INTERVIEW FOR 12, AND, UH, JUST THE, UH, DISTRICT AND COUNCIL MEMBER PLEASE.UM, HI, MY NAME'S KAREN SANDERS AND I AM FROM DISTRICT 14.
AND, UH, MY COUNCIL MEMBER IS PAUL LEY.
UH, JAY GONZALEZ WITH PRECINCT, UH, 13 GAY WILLIS.
STEPHANIE CASEY, DISTRICT THREE.
ZIN GRACIE, RACHEL NELSON, GEERING, DISTRICT TWO.
JONATHAN SACKER, DISTRICT ONE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CHAD WEST.
SHELBY BOFSKI, COUNCIL DISTRICT NINE, UH, PAULA BLACKMAN.
AND IF WE CAN GO ONLINE PLEASE, IF YOU CAN, UM, LET'S START WITH ELIZABETH AND THEN BONNIE ELIZABETH SREB, DISTRICT 11 WITH JAMIE SCHULTZ.
AND I WISH I REMEMBERED MY DISTRICT, BUT I DON'T, BUT I THINK IT'S 14, BUT I'LL HAVE TO LOOK IT UP.
DO WE NEED TO GO OVER THE ABSENTEES OR JUST DOLING AHEAD? YES, NOTED.
UM, AREN'T YOU GUYS NEXT? UM, WE ARE GONNA GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 19TH.
UM, AS ALWAYS, JILLIAN DOES SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THEM.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR, UH, CONCERNS OR ANY CHANGES TO THE MINUTES? NO.
CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? I MOVE.
SO EVERYONE, I'LL, I'LL TRY TO BE QUICK.
UM, AT THIS TIME WE HAVE AN ANNUAL REPORT OVERVIEW.
UM, WE DO THIS FOR THE NEW COMMISSION MEMBERS.
WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR, AND IT'S REALLY, UM, A GOOD SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED AS A COMMISSION.
UH, AND THEN WHAT WE LOOK FORWARD TO IN, UM, THE FA IN THE UPCOMING YEAR.
AND SO I USUALLY, I'M THE AUTHOR OF THIS, BUT I ALWAYS WELCOME AND I KNOW JILLIAN WELCOMED INPUT FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.
UM, I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE HAD SOME TIME TO GO OVER IT.
AGAIN, IT'S BEEN JUST ONE OF THOSE YEARS, UH, FOR DAS AND AS WE SIT IN OUR POSITIONS AND WE TRY TO HELP, UM, ADVISE COUNSEL, UH, DAS ESPECIALLY IN THESE MEETINGS, BUT ABOVE AND BEYOND, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE SEVERAL HERE, UM, LIKE LISA AND STEPHANIE WHO VOLUNTEER OR AT THE SHELTER A LOT.
UM, OTHERS ARE IN OTHER TYPES OF MEETINGS, WHETHER IT'S ORDINANCES LIKE RACHEL, UM, AND, AND SO FORTH.
SO IF EVERYBODY HAS HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE REPORT, UM, UNDERSTAND THAT IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES MADE TO THE REPORT, WE CAN VOTE ON THEM AND ADD THEM.
UM, IF THERE IS A CONSENSUS, IF THERE IS NOT A CONSENSUS, THEN WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS GO AHEAD AND, UM, THAT PERSON ON THEIR OWN, EXCUSE ME, COMMISSIONER WRITES A DISSENTING OPINION REMARK, AND THEN THAT IS ADDED, BUT THAT IS NOT PART OF THE COMMISSION AS A WHOLE.
SO, UM, I HOPE, AND, AND PLEASE, WE WELCOME DISSENTING VIEWPOINTS.
EVEN IF WE DON'T VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT, WE STILL THINK THAT SHOULD GO IN FRONT OF THE COMMISSION.
SO SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD ANY DISSENTING OPINIONS, BUT, UM, JUST WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS.
PLEASE POINT OUT TYPOS, ANYTHING ELSE.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, UM, IF YOU GUYS HAVE AGREEMENTS OR WANNA ADD SOMETHING, NOW IS THE TIME TO RAISE YOUR HAND.
SO WAS EVERYBODY, UM, IN AGREEMENT WITH THE REPORT? YES.
UM, SO THEN I, I'D LOVE FOR SOMEONE TO MOTION TO APPROVE THE REPORT.
UM, AND I JUST ALSO WANNA THANK YOU ALL TOO.
IT WAS, UH, GREAT LOOKING AT THIS REPORT IN DECEMBER AND REMINDING, UM, NOT ONLY MELISSA AND HER TEAM, BUT OUR COMMISSIONERS, HOW MANY MEETINGS WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR WITH OUR TASK FORCE.
UM, LOOKING AT THE ORDINANCES, YOU KNOW, ONE SHINING STAR THAT I FELT CAME OUT OF IT IS THE GREAT WORK THAT PAUL AND HIS TEAM DID WITH RESPECT TO COYOTES, I THINK IN THE PAST.
BUT ALSO THIS YEAR WE HAVE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES USING OUR ONE PAGERS, UM, FOR COYOTES.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DAS AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE COME OUT OF IT.
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THANK YOU EVERYBODY.AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND MELISSA, UM, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
YOU'RE NEXT WITH THE DIRECTOR'S PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FOR LOOKING OUT FROM COLD.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT
I'M MELISSA WEBER, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF FOR DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
SHE, SENIOR MANAGER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
MARY MARTIN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, PAUL RAMON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND SUMMER DOL SENIOR MANAGER OF SHELTER OPERATIONS.
AND, UM, AND THEN THE REST OF THE TEAM IS, IS ONLINE.
UM, I DO WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THESE FOLKS ARE COMMITTED, DEDICATED PEOPLE.
WE'RE HIRED TO WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK, FIVE DAYS A WEEK.
AND I CAN TELL YOU FROM OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND, AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT AREN'T PART OF THE LEADERSHIP TEAM, WE'RE REGULARLY WORKING WELL ABOVE 40 HOURS, WELL ABOVE FIVE DAYS A WEEK.
THIS REALLY IS A COMMITTED, DEDICATED TEAM TO, TO IMPROVE AND BE A RESTORE TO THE PETS AND PEOPLE OF DALLAS.
RIGHT? I JUST WANTED TO START BY SAYING THAT'S NEXT SLIDE.
UM, WE'LL BE GOING OVER THE PRINCIPLES, DAS PRINCIPLES AND VALUES OF SURVEY FOR DASHBOARD OF PERFORMANCE.
AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT QUARTER ONE, WHICH IS OCTOBER, 2023 THROUGH DECEMBER, 2023.
OUR VALUES OF SERVICE ARE CITY OF DALLAS, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, VISION FRAMEWORK.
AND, AND I KNOW THAT I HAVE THESE EVERY TIME AND EVERY TIME THAT WE MEET WITH, WITH YOU AS COMMISSIONERS OR WE HAVE MEETINGS WITH OUR TEAM, ALL STAFF MEETINGS, WE'RE ALWAYS INCORPORATING THESE VALUES OF SERVICE SO THAT THEY CAN BE INGRAINED AND PART OF OUR CULTURE.
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
THIS IS WHAT, WHO, WHO WE WANT TO SHOW UP FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS AS WITH EMPATHY, ETHICS, EXCELLENCE, ENGAGEMENT AND EQUITY SLIDE.
AND THEN THE PRINCIPLES ARE DAS PRINCIPLES THAT WE CONTINUE WITH, UM, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, COMPASSION AND
AND AGAIN, WE, WE, I TALK ABOUT THOSE IN EVERY MEETING THAT WE HAVE, JUST SO THAT WE CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM INGRAINED CULTURE.
SO THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE, FIVE SLIDES ARE GOING TO BE OUR FISCAL YEAR 24 CITY GOAL.
THE FIRST ONE IS OUR CITY MANAGER GOAL, INCREASED DOGS AND CATS IN FOSTER.
UM, SO WHEN WE FORECASTED THIS, IT WAS A FOUR YEAR FORECAST.
SO ORIGINALLY FOR TWO YEARS WE WERE SUPPOSED TO INCREASE FOSTERS BY 5%, AND THEN THE NEXT TWO YEARS INCREASE IT BY 2%, AND WE'VE JUST BEEN BLOWING IT OUT OF THE WATER EVERY TIME.
AND SO THIS IS, YOU SEE WHERE WE ARE, FISCAL YEAR DATE, UM, 64, UM, 24, SORRY, LOOKED AT THE NET.
UM, AND WHAT THAT IS CURRENTLY, WE HAVE OVER 600 DOGS IN FOSTER AND OVER 300 CATS IN FOSTER.
SO THAT'S REALLY INCREASING AND MAXIMIZING OUR LIFESAVING.
I WAS TALKING TO ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS BEFORE THE MEETING, AND SHE BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION WITH COMMUNITY THAT THAT'S CREATED TOO.
HAVING ALL OF THOSE FOSTER PARENTS AND CREATING A CULTURE OF FOSTERING WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
SO NOT ONLY LIFE SAVING, BUT, BUT WHAT, HOW IT'S AFFECT COMMUNITY.
UM, THIS KIND OF GROWTH IS NOT WITHOUT ITS CONSEQUENCES.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE CONSTANTLY PROBLEM SOLVING IS HOW WE SUPPORT THIS MEMBER OF PETS IN FOSTER, BOTH, UM, WITH THE FOSTER TEAM, BEING ABLE TO INTERACT WITH THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE FOSTERING AND WITH OUR MEDICAL TEAM.
AND THAT'S A REGULAR THING IN SHELTERING THAT YOU SEE AS YOUR FOSTER GROWS THAT THE IMPACT ON THE MEDICAL TEAM.
AND SO WE'RE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REGULARLY LOOKING AT.
OUR NEXT ONE IS THAT WE FEED DOG, UM, RETURN TO HOME RATE BY 40%.
THIS IS, THAT'S ON HERE FOR A WHILE.
I WILL SAY I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE'RE AT 21%, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN WE'VE BEEN FOR A WHILE.
UM, WE HAD OUR FISCAL YEAR TO DATE GROWTH OVER LAST YEAR IS 15.9%.
SO ALL 16% WHO WERE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
AND I KNOW I, I'VE COME HERE AND I'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, TALKED ABOUT IT, TALKED ABOUT IT, AND SAID THAT WE'RE GONNA STAY ACCURATE.
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AN INCREASE OF RETURN TO HOMES IN THE FIELD AND IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, AS WELL AS THE RETURN TO HOME RATE IN THE SHELTER.AND SO THOSE OUTCOMES ARE HELPING US TO ACHIEVE THE, UM, AN INCREASE IN OUR LIFE RELEASE RATE.
MAINTAIN LOOSE AND LOOSE OWN DOG BITES.
AND SO WE'RE, THE GOAL IS TO BE, TO DECREASE IT BY 2%.
AND WHEN WE DID THIS FORECAST, THESE FORECASTS, THIS IS WHEN WE WERE STILL IN, UM, IN COVID TIMES.
AND SO OUR BITES WERE REALLY AT A LOW.
BUT THIS IS ALL THIS LOOKING AT PAST LAST YEAR, JUST 37% OVER LAST YEAR.
AND YOU KNOW, I THINK I CAME HERE LAST QUARTER AND WE WERE REALLY SEEING SUCCESS IN OUR LAST FISCAL YEAR.
WE SAW SUCCESS IN, IN DECREASING THE LOOSE ON THE DOG BITES.
WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE THIS QUARTER.
UM, WE WERE HYPOTHESIZING THAT THE REASON THAT WE HAD SEEN SO MUCH SUCCESS IN FISCAL YEAR 23 WAS BECAUSE WE HAVE GOTTEN MORE STAFF.
SO WE HAD BEEN AT THAT 44%, UM, VACANCY RATE FOR UP TO A 16 TO 18% VACANCY RATE.
SO WE THOUGHT THAT WAS IT, BUT WE'RE STILL THERE.
WE STILL HAVE THAT STAFF AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ABLE TO DO THE PROACTIVE.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA KEEP LOOKING AT, KEEP MONITORING, UM, YOU KNOW, TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT, UM, WHAT WE CAN DO TO REALLY IMPACT THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THIS IS PUBLIC SAFETY AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO US.
BUT TWO OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT AS WE WERE DISCUSSING THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WE DID HAVE A WARMER FALL SEASON.
I KNOW IT'S, IT'S FEELS SILLY TO SAY THAT WE HAD A WARM UP FALL SEASON THIS QUARTER BECAUSE IT'S FREEZING.
BUT, UM, WE DID HAVE A WONDERFUL SEASON THEN LAST YEAR, AND THEN WAS LOTS OF PEOPLE THAT WE MIGHT HAVE SEEN.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHY THAT NUMBER IS BUILT.
NEXT SLIDE IS ENGLISH AND DOGS TRANSFERRED TO RESCUES.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I TALKED ABOUT LAST YEAR TO HELP IMPACT, UH, LIFE SAVING, THAT WE WANTED TO INCREASE OUR RESCUE, RESCUE PLACEMENT.
SO OUR GOAL WAS 5%, BUT WE'VE INCREASED IT BY 90%.
AND SO WE WANT TO LIKE REALLY SHOUT OUT TO OUR RESCUE PARTNERS.
SARAH'S GONNA TALK MORE ABOUT RESCUES AND WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING, BUT I MEAN, LOOK AT THAT NUMBER.
UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE, NEXT NEXT SLIDE.
THE NEXT NEXT SLIDE IS GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT, UM, ABOUT PRODUCT LIVE RELEASE RATES.
SO YOU'RE SEEING THAT IMPACT IN THE 82%, AND IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE BEEN IN THE EIGHTIES FOR A WHILE.
UM, I DON'T THINK THAT WE SAW THEM IN FISCAL YEAR 23, SO TO BE IN THEIR PLACE IN FISCAL YEAR 24.
NOW WE HAVE TO KEEP UP THOSE RTOS.
WE HAVE TO KEEP UP THOSE ADOPTIONS.
WE HAVE TO, LIKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO KEEP UP ALSO SEE THAT WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE ANIMALS COME IN.
BUT WE ALSO FINISH, UM, DECEMBER, THE MONTH OF DECEMBER WITH AN 84.9 LIBRARY RATE.
SO GO BACK TO THE OTHER SLIDES.
AND SO THE, UM, THE OTHER METRIC THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CITY IS FULL OF TWO ADDITIONAL PRE VACCINE CLINICS IN SOUTHERN DALLAS.
SO I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT THESE ARE ONLY, THAT WE'RE ONLY DOING TWO.
UM, THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE DOZENS THAT WE ALREADY DO VACCINE CLINICS.
THIS IS WHERE WE WILL SPONSOR THREE VACCINE CLINICS IN ADDITION TO THE VACCINE CLINICS THAT ARE ALREADY.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE THE EVENTS THAT WE'VE HELD AND WHAT IS ONGOING IS THAT SPAY TOO? SORRY, THAT IS, OR IT'S JUST VACCINES VACCINE.
UM, SO HERE'S OUR, WE'LL DIG INTO THE DATA HERE.
SO, UM, I'D ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE 82%, 81% FOR CAT, UM, 57% FOR THE NEONATE.
AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE, WE, WE'VE REALLY SEEN A LOT ATE THIS YEAR WHEN WE, WE LOOK AT, UM, WHEN WE SEE THAT INTAKE WHITE SPECIES AND THEN, UM, THE OTHERS.
AND, AND WHAT IS AFFECTING THAT IS WE HAVE HAD SO MANY FIGHTING ROOSTER CASES, AND WE REALLY, WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST CASE, WE REALLY EXHAUSTED
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ALL OF OUR RESOURCES TRYING TO SEE IF THERE WAS EVER GONNA BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO HAVE A POSITIVE OUTCOME.AND WE REALLY, WE, WE SPOKE WITH ALL THE NATIONALS.
WE SPOKE WITH LIKE ALL NATIONAL, UM, WILDLIFE, UM, A-S-P-C-A, BEST FRIENDS, HSUS, ANYBODY WE CAN'T, COULD TO SEE IF WE COULD FIND AN OUTCOME FOR THEM AND WE CAN'T.
SO WHENEVER WE SEE THOSE RISK OR CASES, IT'S GONNA IMPACT THIS NUMBER.
AND SO IF HERES OUR OUTCOME COMPARISON BY SPECIES.
AND SO YOU'VE SEEN IT GROW IN OVER LAST YEAR AND LIFE OUTCOMES, UM, FOR DOGS AND CATS, AGAIN, THE NEONATES IS, IS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING IN THIS QUARTER.
AND THEN YOU SEE THE OTHERS NEXT.
AND YOU TAKE BY SPECIES, WHICH IS
AND, AND IT'S GROWING BOTH IN FIELD AND SHELTER.
SO, UM, THAT'S WHY WE REALLY HAVE TO, UH, I'M CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC OF, OF THE TREND THAT WE'RE TAKING IN THE LIVE RELEASE RATE, BUT WE HAVE TO LIKE REALLY STAY ON TOP OF THOSE POSITIVE OUTCOMES AND KEEP THROWING THEM TO BE ABLE TO MATCH THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS THAT ARE COMING INTO THE SHELTER
AND THEN HERE IS OUR OUTCOME BY SPECIES, OUR LIVE OUTCOMES FOR DOGS AND MY NON-LIFE OUTCOMES.
UM, AGAIN, THE ADOPTIONS AND THE RESCUE ARE REALLY THE, THE WHAT'S, UM, WHAT'S DRIVING OUR SUCCESS, BUT ALSO SEE THE INCREASE IN THE FIELD, RTO, WHICH IS HELPING.
AND THEN DOWN BELOW IN OUR NON-LIVE OUTCOMES, THEY BOOST TIPS.
SPACE, HUMAN ARE OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGES STILL GOING ON.
AND THEN CAPS, UM, ADOPTION INVESTMENT DRIVERS.
AND THEN FOR NON-LIFE OUTCOMES FOR CATS, IT REALLY IS PAIN BECAUSE SO OFTEN THE CATS THAT ARE COMING TO US ARE SO SICK OR INJURED THAT THEY'RE EUTHANIZED TO RELIEVE IR REMEDIABLE SUFFERING.
AND HERE'S OUR FIELD ACTIVITIES.
AND IT SHOWS THAT WE'RE AT A 67% SERVICE REQUEST, TIMELY RESPONSE RATE.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DID IMPACT, UH, OUR RESPONSE RATE IS HAVING, WE HAD OVER 400 WORDS.
WE HAD AT LEAST ONE BLOCK THIS QUARTER.
AND SO THEN THAT TAKES FOLKS AWAY FROM RESPONDING TO CALLS TO BE ABLE TO CARE FOR EACH SPREADSHEET.
'CAUSE WE HAVE TO HOLD 'EM WHILE, UM, UNTIL THE, THE, THE DA TAKES THE CASE BEFORE THE JUDGE.
AND WE ALSO HAVE TO HOLD THEM FOR AN APPEAL PERIOD.
SO WE HAVE TO PROVIDE, UM, CARE FOR THEM AND WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO PROVIDE THE BEST CARE POSSIBLE FOR THEM BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE.
SO, UM, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE HAD, UH, UH, WE HAVE INTERFACE ISSUES WITH SALESFORCE AND CHAMELEON.
SO OUR, OUR 3 1 1, OUR SERVICE REQUEST CALLS TIME IN THROUGH 3 1 1, THE AR DALLAS APP OR ONLINE.
AND THEY GO THROUGH SALESFORCE.
AND THEN THE SALESFORCE INTERFACE WITH CHAMELEON IS HOW THEY'RE CONVERTED.
AND THAT INTERFACE HAS JUST OFTEN, UH, NOT WORKING.
AND, UM, SO IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON WITH THE IT DEPARTMENT AND, BUT IT, IT SKEWS THE STEPS.
SO WE'RE WATCHING EVERY DAY, ALL ACTUALLY CREATED A REPORT SO WE CAN SEE, UM, WE CAN SEE EVERY DAY SERVICE REQUESTS THAT ARE COMING DUE OR THAT ARE GOING TO BE OVERDUE.
AND WE HAVE MANY, MANY, MANY DAYS WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE COMPLETELY CAUGHT UP.
AND THAT'S NOT REFLECTED HERE.
AND SO I THINK IT'S WHEN WE'RE PULLING OUR DATA BECAUSE THE TIMELINESS OF THE, THE UPDATE IN THE SOFTWARE, I HOPE THAT MAKES SENSE.
I'M, I'M NOT A VERY TECHIE PERSON, SO I, I'M NOT SURE I ARTICULATED THAT WELL.
ALL THAT TO SAY, OUR TEAM IS REALLY ON POINT AND THOSE SERVICE REQUEST CALLS, UM, LOOSE AND LOOSE ON SERVICE REQUESTS ARE
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ACTUALLY DOWN.AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LOOSE ON BIKES TO SEE THIS NUMBER DOWN, BUT THE BIKE'S UP, YOU KNOW, REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS AND, AND HOW DO WE GET AFTER THAT? SO, UM, THAT'S THAT.
AND THEN OUR SERVICE REQUEST TEXT, YOU CAN SEE BELOW OUR EXTERNAL PROACTIVES AND FOLLOW UPS ON MEDICAL TREATMENT.
AND SO I KNOW THAT SPAY NTER IS A HUGE TOPIC.
IT'S A HUGE TOPIC INTERNALLY FOR US TOO.
WE ARE CURRENTLY AT PLACE WHERE WITH OUR TWO DOCTORS, WE ARE ONBOARDING A PART-TIME DOCTOR RIGHT NOW.
I BELIEVE THAT'S TO START NEXT WEEK.
BUT CURRENTLY WE HAVE, UM, TWO, TWO DOCTORS IN THE SHELTER.
WE DO HAVE ANOTHER DOCTOR THAT DOES TELEMEDICINE FOR OUR FOSTER, UM, FOSTER PARENTS.
BUT, UM, WITH THE TWO VETERINARIANS IN INTERNALLY, WE'RE GETTING THAT 28 64 SPAY SURGERIES FOR THE QUARTER.
BUT REALLY WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO ABOUT 35 SURGERIES A DAY FOR US TO BE ON POINT WITH WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN OUR LIVE RELEASE RATE.
AND TO MATCH THE ANIMALS COMING IN, WE HAVE TO DO AT LEAST 65.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE MAKE THAT HAPPEN WITH THE, THE LACK OF VETERINARY, THE VETERINARIAN SHORTAGE, REALLY, WE ONLY HAVE THE, AND THIS IS, THIS IS SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES THAT ARE DONE INSIDE.
THESE ARE NOT THE SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES THAT WE'RE SUBSIDIZING WITH SPAY NEUTER NETWORK, UM, OR THAT WE'RE DOING WITH TCAP.
THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT OUR DOCTORS ARE DOING.
AND YOU SEE THAT IT CONTINUES TO GROW EVEN THOUGH OUR DOCTORS ARE GO GETTING LEFT.
AND LESS SO WE'RE, WE'RE CONSTANTLY HAVING CONVERSATIONS ON HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE DO MORE SURGERY SO THAT WE CAN DO MORE SPAY UTERINE? AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WITH, YOU KNOW, BRINGING, UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY DO THREE, FIVE SURGERIES A DAY.
OFTEN IF YOU COME AND ADOPT AN ANIMAL FROM US TODAY, THERE'S EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE SPAYED OR NEUTERED UNTIL SATURDAY, AND THEN WE'RE EUTHANIZING HER SPACE, BUT THAT DOG IS TAKING UP THAT SPACE.
SO WE'RE REALLY, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE THESE THINGS OUT BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF SPAY NEUTER.
WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SAVING.
AND SO GETTING THROUGH ALL OF THESE BARRIERS AND, AND FIGURING OUT A WAY THROUGH OUR SPECIALTY SURGERIES ARE DOWN.
THE REASON THE SPECIALTY SURGERIES ARE DOWN IS BECAUSE THAT SO MUCH FOCUSES ON SPAY AND NEUTER, AND THEN OUR HEARTWORM TREATMENT IS AT 48.
AND, AND THAT'S WHO, UM, WE'RE STARTING HEARTBURN TREATMENT ON.
ANYBODY WITH AN OUTCOME
ALRIGHT, SO OUR, FOR OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, UM, OUR HOURS ARE UP PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY FOR THE FIRST QUARTER.
CAN, UM, CAN YOU FLIP THE SLIDE? SORRY, GO.
IS THIS THE ONE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? ONE MORE.
UM, SO YES, UH, HOURS ARE UP, UM, ALMOST, UH, 1100 HOURS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER.
AND OUR NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEERS IS ALSO GROWING.
UM, SO THE, IN THE FIRST QUARTER, OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR HAS MADE SOME CHANGES IN THE WAY THAT WE'RE RECRUITING AND ONBOARDING VOLUNTEERS TO MAKE THE PROCESS EASIER.
UM, WE'VE ALSO BEEN ENGAGING VOLUNTEER TRAINERS, SO IT'S DEFINITELY HAVING AN IMPACT AND EXPANDING OUR ABILITY TO ONBOARD NEW VOLUNTEERS AND KEEP THEM ENGAGED.
AND BY UTILIZING VOLUNTEERS AS TRAINERS, BUILDING COMMUNITY RIGHT FROM THAT FIRST TIME SOMEONE STARTS VOLUNTEERING IN THE SHELTER.
UM, AND IT'S DEFINITELY HAVING AN IMPACT.
UH, VOLUNTEER RETENTION IS A NUMBER THAT WE TRACK ANNUALLY.
SO, UM, THIS IS A GRAPHIC THAT OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR PUT TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE, UM, THE END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR.
UM, SO THE NUMBER OF HOURS LOGGED FOR DOG RELATED, UM, OPPORTUNITIES, UM, 4,000 HOURS, UM, AND OVER 450 HOURS IN CAT RELATED OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, OUR MARKETING VOLUNTEERS PUT IN OVER 2300 HOURS, UM, AS COMPARED TO 1300 HOURS THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
UM, REALLY INCREDIBLE GROWTH THERE.
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VOLUNTEERS WHO RUN SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES DEDICATED TO NETWORKING SHELTER ANIMALS.AND SO WE'RE SEEING, UM, WE'RE SEEING 'EM INSPIRE EACH OTHER AND THOSE PAGES ARE GROWING AND IT'S DEFINITELY HELPING EXPAND OUR REACH IN MARKETING OUR AVAILABLE PETS.
AND THEN, UM, THE PROGRAM THAT GREW THE MOST WAS OFFSITE EVENTS.
UH, WE BUILT AN OFFSITE EVENTS VOLUNTEER TEAM AND THEY LOGGED OVER 1800 HOURS AS OPPOSED TO 163 IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
OUR, THE NUMBER OF EVENTS THAT WE HAVE ATTENDED HAS EXPLODED.
UM, WE'RE ABLE TO ATTEND MULTIPLE VOLUNTEER OR MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE EVENTS EVERY SATURDAY BECAUSE OF THOSE VOLUNTEERS.
UM, AND WE HAVE STANDING MONTHLY EVENTS AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AROUND DFW THAT ARE ENTIRELY COORDINATED AND RUN BY, UM, VOLUNTEERS, EVENT VOLUNTEERS.
UM, SO THIS IS A BREAKDOWN OF THE TOP 10 RESCUES, UM, BROKEN DOWN BY CAT AND DOG AND THEN FURTHER BROKEN DOWN INTO AGE GROUP.
AND YOU'LL SEE A COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR.
UM, OUR TOP RESCUE, UM, IS STILL OPERATION KINDNESS.
I WON'T READ THROUGH ALL OF THEM.
I'LL LET Y'ALL TAKE A SECOND TO
UM, DEFINITELY REPRESENTATIVE OF A LOT OF REALLY AMAZING WORK ON OUR RESCUES PARTS.
AND THEN WE HAVE A BREAKDOWN BY THE, UM, BY DOGS AND PETS AND EACH GROUP FOR PETS GOING TO RESCUES.
SO THINK WE'RE REALLY INCREDIBLE.
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF DOGS THAT ARE BEING HO BY OUR RESCUE PARTNERS WE HAVE HAS DECLINED SLIGHTLY.
AND THIS IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE EVENTS THAT WE ATTENDED IN, UH, QUARTER FOUR.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT LONG, LONG LIST OF ADOPTION EVENTS.
SO ONCE AGAIN, LARGELY POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF OUR SEVERAL VOLUNTEERS.
THERE ARE
AND THOSE EVENTS ARE NOT JUST IMPACTFUL FOR ADOPTIONS, THEY'RE ALSO INCREDIBLE, UM, RECRUITMENT FOR VOLUNTEERS AND FOSTERS, UM, AND JUST ENGAGEMENT AND VISIBILITY IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE GET AN AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT OUR PET SUPPORT PROGRAM AS WELL.
SO IF ANYBODY IS NEEDING ASSISTANCE, THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN COME TO US.
UM, SO THOSE EVENTS HAVE A REALLY BIG IMPACT.
AND SOME OF THOSE ARE ACTUALLY THE REOCCURRING EVENTS I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
SO HUDDLE UP AND READ, THAT HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
UM, THE POP HOUSE EVENT IS, IS A MONTHLY EVENT.
AND ONCE AGAIN, THOSE WERE STARTED AND ARE COORDINATED BY VOLUNTEERS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS ON HERE.
THOSE ARE, UM, EVENTS THAT WE WERE INVITED TO BY OUR, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND WE SAID YES TO EVERY SINGLE INVITATION THAT WE RECEIVED.
UM, WHEN WE CAN'T SEND ADOPTION STAFF OUT, WE HAVE OUR INCREDIBLE FIELD SERVICES TEAM GOING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT THE RESOURCES AND SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE EDUCATION EVENTS AND, UM, MAINTENANCE SERVICES EVENTS.
THOSE ARE OUR VACCINE CLINICS THAT ARE HOSTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TCAP AND SNN AT DAS EVERY MONTH.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE PET FOOD PANTRIES.
WE HAVE TWO OFFSITE LOCATIONS THAT WE DO MONTHLY PET FOOD PANTRIES AT, AND THEN WE ALSO DO ONE AT DAS EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
AND THEN WE HAD A LOT OF REALLY GREAT MEDIA ATTENTION, UM, IN THE FIRST QUARTER AS WELL.
SO, UM, COVERAGE FOR ADOPTION EVENTS THAT WE WERE HOSTING, WE DID SOME APPEALS TO GET MORE FOSTERS AND ADOPTERS AS OUR CAPACITY, UM, CONTINUED TO BE A STRUGGLE.
WE HAD SOME REALLY GREAT FEATURES ON, UM, REUNIFICATION STORIES.
THE, THE PET SUPPORT TEAM HAS BEEN DOING A REALLY INCREDIBLE JOB AND THERE WERE SOME REALLY SIGNIFICANT, UH, REUNIFICATIONS IN THE FIRST QUARTER WITH PETS THAT HAD BEEN MISSING FOR, UM, A YEAR OR MORE.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO REUNITE THEM WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
SO, UM, REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE AND, AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR MICROCHIPS ARE UPDATED AND, UM, AND THAT THEY'RE CHECKING WITH THEIR LOCAL SHELTER, WHICH THEY, THEIR PETS.
WE, UM, HAD A REALLY FUN STORY ABOUT A LOCAL BOY SCOUT WHO BUILT SOME, UM, DOG HOUSES AND DONATED THEM TO THE SHELTER, AND WE ACTUALLY GAVE ALL OF THOSE DOG HOUSES OUT OVER THE LAST WEEKEND WITH THE COLD WEATHER.
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SO REALLY GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR HIS INCREDIBLE SERVICE TO HIS COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO IT WAS FUN, UM, TO BE ABLE TO PLUG THAT.AND THEN WE WERE ALSO ON THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW.
UM, OUR, UH, AMAZING OFFICER JACKIE, UH, SUTHERLAND WAS ABLE TO TALK ABOUT HER WORK WITH, UM, COYOTES IN DALLAS.
SO REALLY SOME, UH, EXCITING MEDIA SPOTLIGHTS FOR DAS AND FIRST QUARTER.
AND NOW WE'LL HAVE SUMMER SILVER.
UM, SO, UM, I'M NEWER TO DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES AND HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH SORT OF, UM, RELAUNCHING AND REINVIGORATING OUR COMMUNITY CHAT RESPONSE.
UM, SO REALLY WE HAVE SORT OF JUST STARTED KICKING THINGS OFF THIS, THIS FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR, UH, WITH, UM, FOR TWO DEDICATED TEAM MEMBERS.
SO OUR COMMUNITY CAT TEAM IS SMALL, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO BE MIGHTY.
UH, SO WE HAVE TWO DEDICATED TEAM MEMBERS ON THE END.
REALLY WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IS IN THE SHELTER IS TO RESPOND TO, UM, SERVICE REQUESTS THAT ARE COMING IN ABOUT COMMUNITY CATS.
UM, THOSE COULD BE PEOPLE JUST WANTING ACCESS TO TNR AND WANTING THAT SSR NUMBER TO BE ABLE TO GO ACCESS
BUT WE ALSO GET A LOT OF OTHER REQUESTS ABOUT PEOPLE FEELING OVERWHELMED NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY A LOT OF SHARING INFORMATION WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, WE ARE ALSO ASSISTING WITH TARGETED TNR PROJECTS.
UM, WE, AND I'LL GO INTO SOME OF THAT IN JUST A SECOND.
UH, AND REALLY ALSO MEDIATING A LOT OF NUISANCE IN NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINTS.
UM, A LOT OF THOSE SERVICE REQUESTS THAT COME THROUGH ARE, UH, ABOUT NEIGHBORS FRUSTRATED WITH ANOTHER NEIGHBOR.
AND SO OUR COMMUNITY TEAM SPENDS A LOT OF TIME GOING OUT SPEAKING TO BOTH PARTIES, UM, REALLY TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO CREATE DETERRENTS FOR THOSE NEIGHBORS THAT, UM, DON'T WANT CATS ON THEIR PROPERTY.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, REALLY TRYING TO SUPPORT THOSE THAT ARE CARING FOR CATS, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE FOLLOWING BEST PRACTICES.
UM, SO REALLY SHARING A LOT OF INFORMATION WITH THE DALLAS COMMUNITY, I WOULD SAY IS TAKING UP THE BULK OF THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO DAS AND SNN ARE ALSO WORKING, UH, TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND BEING ABLE TO SERVE THOSE SSR NUMBERS.
SO, UM, WE ARE NOW ALLOWING FOUR CATS PER SSR.
UM, WHEREAS BEFORE IT WAS TWO.
SO REALLY TRYING TO, UM, ASSIST WITH WHEN YOU'RE GOING OUT THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING TO TRAP AND YOU HAPPEN TO GET THREE CATS INSTEAD OF TWO NOT NEEDING TO WAIT, YOU CAN, UM, BRING ALL FOUR IN AND, AND REALLY TRYING TO, UM, MAKE A BIT MORE OF AN IMPACT FOR THOSE THAT ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY TRAPPING.
UM, WE ALSO, UM, CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUR TARGETED AREAS, UM, BASED ON OUR KIDNEY INTAKE.
SO THE CHARTS THAT, THAT, UM, YOU SEE THE MAP TO THE, TO THE RIGHT, UH, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW GRANULAR WE'RE GETTING.
THIS IS A COMMUNITY WHERE WE SAW A HUGE NUMBER OF INJURED OR DECEASED CATS FROM, OR KITTENS.
UM, SO REALLY HIGH CAT INTAKE COMING IN FROM THIS AREA.
UM, AND SO WE ACTUALLY LIKE TAKE THE MAP DOWN TO THE ACTUAL HOUSES AND WE GO DOOR TO DOOR.
UM, SO WE'RE NOT COMPLETELY FINISHED IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT YOU CAN SEE WE'RE LITERALLY MAPPING THE NUMBER OF CATS WE'RE TAKING AT EACH HOME.
UM, AND REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE POPULATION IN A COMMUNITY, UH, THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN YOU NEED TO, UH, TNR AT LEAST 70% OF THE POPULATION.
SO, UM, WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THOSE AREAS WHERE WE'RE SEEING OUR HIGHEST INTAKE FROM THAT, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO THAT 70%.
SO, UM, THIS IS JUST SORT OF AN EXAMPLE OF THE TARGETED EFFORTS THAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, WE'VE GONE AHEAD AND PULLED THE DATA FROM LAST YEAR.
'CAUSE THIS WAS BASED ON, UM, 2022 DATA.
SO 2023 DATA IS IN, WE TOOK IN OVER 2300 NEONATE KITTENS LAST YEAR.
UM, AND SO REALLY DIGGING DEEP INTO THE DATA OF WHERE THOSE KITTENS CAME FROM AND WHERE WE NEED TO DO THIS TYPE OF TARGETED EFFORT.
UM, WE'VE ALSO STARTED TRAPPING IN OUR SOFTWARE SYSTEM.
THE, UM, THE COMMUNITY CAT RESPONSES THAT, UH, WERE AN, AN ACTIVITY THAT WE'RE DOING, UM, WHICH IS NEW THIS PAST QUARTER.
WE STARTED IN LATE OCTOBER, SO THE OCTOBER NUMBER IS NOT COMPLETELY, UM, ACCURATE.
UH, WE DID A BIT MORE THAN THAT, BUT, UM, WHAT YOU
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CAN SEE HERE ON THE CHART IS WHEN YOU SEE INTAKE, THOSE ARE CATS THAT ACTUALLY WERE TRAPPED AND THEN ENDED UP COMING INTO DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES FOR ADOPTION OR PLACEMENT.UM, THE, THAT WOULD BE BECAUSE THOSE CATS WERE TOO YOUNG TO RETURN BACK OUTSIDE, WERE IN UNSAFE COMMUNITIES OR WERE TOO SICK OR INJURED, UH, TO BE PLACED BACK OUTSIDE.
UM, THE S UM, THE SNN, THOSE ARE CATS THAT WE ACTUALLY TRAPPED OUR OFFICERS THAT FROM OUR COMMUNITY CAT TEAM TOOK TO SPAY NEUTER NETWORK AND THEY DID THE SURGERY FOR US.
UM, AND SO THAT'S TYPICALLY FROM THESE SORT OF TARGETED, UM, AREAS LIKE YOU SEE ON THE MAP.
AND THEN, UM, SURGERY, THAT IS WHERE DAS ACTUALLY PERFORMED THE SURGERY.
SO OUR TEAM TRACK THOSE CATS BROUGHT THEM IN, AND OUR VETERINARIANS PERFORM THE SURGERY.
AND AS WE DISCUSSED THE CHALLENGES WITH SURGERY AT DAS, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING WE TRY TO AVOID IF POSSIBLE, UH, JUST BECAUSE WE NEED TO DO IT FOR ADOPTED PETS, THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHERE, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HOLIDAYS, OVER THE HOLIDAYS, STANDARD NETWORK WASN'T OPEN ON CERTAIN DAYS, SO WE ABSORBED SOME OF THOSE SURGERIES OURSELF.
SO JUST TO KIND OF SHOW, AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SORT OF A BASELINE WE HOPE TO GROW AND BE ABLE TO SHOW QUARTER OVER QUARTER, UM, HOW WE'RE IMPROVING IN THESE AREAS.
BUT, UM, BUT AGAIN, THIS IS, THIS IS THE RESULTS OF A TWO MAN TEAM OUT THERE.
SO, AND THEN FOR OUR
UH, I'M GONNA GO OVER THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WITH YOU.
UH, THE FIRST SLIDE IS FIELD UPDATES.
AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE CONTINUED TO AGGRESSIVELY RECRUIT, HIRE, AND RETAIN OUR ACOS.
AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW SEEN IN THIS PAST FEW CYCLES IS WE, WE'VE MAINTAINED AT LEAST FIVE OR LAST VACANCIES FOR ANIMAL SERVICES OFFICER.
AND WHAT THAT DOES IS ALLOWS US THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE STAFF BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE CALLS THAT ARE COMING IN AND TO BE, UH, AGGRESSIVELY PROACTIVE AS AS AS TIME ALLOWS, AND THEN TO, TO BE ABLE TO FOCUS ON THOSE RETURN TO HOMES.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S IMPACTING OUR ABILITY TO ENFORCE RIGHT NOW IN ONE CATEGORY RELATED TO ROOSTERS IS A NEW LEGISLATION HOUSE BILL 1750, WHICH THE CHAIR IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH, UH, WHICH IS BASICALLY COVERING THE AG, UH, OPERATIONS THAT ARE NOW ALLOWED AS AND IN ALLOWING ROOSTERS TO BE, UH, WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
IF YOU KNOW THE PREVIOUS ORDINANCE, THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS, AND WE COULD ADDRESS 'EM FOR THAT ASPECT.
AND AS WELL, THROUGH THE, THIS NEW LEGISLATION HAS REMOVED BOTH OF THOSE MECHANISMS FOR US AND AS WELL REMOVE THE MECHANISM CODE TO ADDRESS THE ZONING ASPECT.
SO WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING AND WAITING FOR A, A, UH, RESPONSE FROM TEXAS A AND M ON HOW WE COULD POSSIBLY WORK AROUND THIS PROCESS.
BUT AT THIS POINT, THE CURRENT CHANGES ARE IN EFFECT WHERE WE CANNOT ADDRESS ROOSTERS AS NOT BEING ALLOWED WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
UH, ONE OF THE WINS THAT WE HAD, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE, THE, THE RE CEREMONY THAT WE HAD, THAT WE HAD A ROOF OF OFFICERS THAT FINALLY COMPLETED THEIR TRAINING WERE AND RECEIVED THEIR BADGE TO, TO FILL OUT INTO THE FIELD AND, AND DO WHAT THEY LOVE TO DO.
WE'LL, WE, WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE ANOTHER CEREMONY COMING UP IN MARCH.
THIS SLIDE HERE IS AN OVERVIEW OF LASTS FISCAL YEARS LOOSE, UH, LOOSE HEAT MAPS, AND YOU CAN SEE THE DENSITY AND THE IMPACTS AND THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL DISTRICT AS FAR AS THESE NUMBERS GO.
BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE USE THESE, THIS DATA TO, TO DETERMINE WHERE WE NEED TO PLACE OUR ASSETS.
BECAUSE WHEN WE GET A LOOSE DOC CALL, IF IT'S NOT INDIVIDUAL TO ITSELF OR TO SOMEONE ELSE, WE HEAT MAP IT SO THAT WE KNOW WHERE TO SEND THE RESOURCES.
'CAUSE IF WE SENT A OFFICER TO RESPOND TO EACH LOOSE DOG CALL NINE TIMES OUTTA 10, THE DOG'S ALREADY GONE OR NOT IN THE AREA.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO BE AS EFFECTIVE AS WE CAN WITH ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO LOOSE DOGS.
AND FIRST WE HAVE OUR HOMELESS ACTION RESPONSE TEAM.
UH, THIS TEAM IS OUR, UH, WORKS IN TANDEM WITH OPTIC MENT SOLUTIONS.
UH, THIS TEAM HAS A 14, UH, ROOFING, UH, CONSISTENT OF CORRESPOND AND HOMELESS SOLUTIONS, PROCESS INTERVENTION, THE DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, THE MARK OFFICE AND CODE, AND THEN THE SUPPLEMENTAL TEAMS ARE MADE UP OF PARKS AND RECREATIONS, DELAWARE RESCUE AND PUBLIC WORKS.
THIS TEAM RESPONDS TO MCC REQUEST FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY, UH, ISSUES AS IT RELATES TO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS AND THE UNSHELTERED.
AND OUR TEAM PROVIDES ASSISTANCE IN THE, UH, CARE AND WELFARE OF THE
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ANIMALS THAT MAY BE AT THESE LOCATIONS, EITHER TO SECURE THE SITE PRIOR TO ENTERING OR PROVIDING RESOURCES TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNSHELTERED WHO HAVE PETS.OF COURSE, OUR SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY UPDATES.
UH, WE DO PLAY A PART IN THE SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY, UH, SPECTRUM.
HOWEVER, THE LIMITED, UH, OUR LIMITATIONS ARE MORE RELATED TO TRANSPORT, HOUSING, AND CARE OF THE ANIMALS.
AND AS DIRECTOR REV SAID THAT WHEN WE DO GET AN INFLUX OF THESE ANIMALS, UH, HERE IN THIS FIRST QUARTER, WE HAD 441 5 STERS, WE HAVE TO SECURE THOSE BECAUSE THEY'RE EVIDENCE WE HAVE TO PROVIDE CARE AND FEEDING AND, AND MONITORING 24 7.
SO AS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE OFFICERS EITHER OUT OF TRAINING OR OUT OF FIELD, UH, OR OFFER OVERTIME TO ENSURE THAT WE, WE MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS.
UH, ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT WE HAVE, UH, UH, ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THIS PROCESS IS WE WORKED OUT AN AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS WATER UTILITIES OR SPACE, BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, EDS DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO, TO SERVE LIVESTOCK OR THAT NUMBER OF ANIMALS, UH, AT, AT ONE SPOT.
SO THEY HAVE BEEN GRACIOUS ENOUGH AND KIND ENOUGH TO PROVIDE A SPACE RESOURCES, THEY'VE FULFILLED ALL OF OUR NEEDS AND REQUESTS.
UH, I CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE THE LOCATION'S AT BECAUSE IT'S A EVIDENTIARY, UH, LOCATION.
BUT, UH, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO, TO DALLAS LAW UTILITIES FOR BEING A PARTNER AND, AND WORKING WITH US, UH, THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING THROUGH THIS PAST YEAR, UH, WITH
AND WHAT IT IS, IS THAT IT'S A COHORT MADE UP OF THE DAS, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION, THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE THROUGH THEIR MPC, UH, FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT CENTER.
AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES IS OUR, OUR, UH, UH, WE'RE UNDER THE UMBRELLA WITH THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, UH, WHO HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US IN GUIDING US THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
UM, IN 2020, UH, CITIES AND COUNTIES TODAY FOR FINE AND FEE JUSTICE IDENTIFIED ANIMAL PET RELATED FEES AMONG THE TOP CITATIONS.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE TO THE, TO THE GRAPH ON THE RIGHT, UH, OUR FINES AND FEES THAT WE'VE, UH, ANALYZED, 77% OF THOSE THAT WERE ISSUED IN SPECIFIC TARGETED AREAS.
IT'S THE HIGHEST VOLUME OF CITATIONS WITH 77%.
AND WHEN THAT AT LARGE TICKET IS WRITTEN, THEN SUBSEQUENT CITATIONS COULD BE WRITTEN FOR FAILURE TO, TO VACCINE SPAY AND NEUTER MICROCHIP AND SO FORTH.
SO IT CREATES A, A, A ROLLING, UH, BURDEN, AN ADDITIONAL BURDEN.
BUT WHAT WHAT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS ADDRESS IT EQUITABLY.
WE'RE NOT TRYING TO REMOVE THE FOOD ASPECT OF GETTING THE CITATION.
WE'RE LOOKING AT OTHER AVENUES AND HOW WE CAN GAIN COMPLIANCE FOR THE PET AND FOR THE OWNER WHILE KEEPING THE DOG WITH THE OWNER AND NOT IN THE SHELTER OR INDUSTRY.
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN TALKS WITH THE COMMUNITY FORTS, UH, TO CHANGE OUR POLICY AS HOW WE ISSUE CITATIONS.
UH, IN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN FORTS, THEY HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO OFFER FOLKS TO HELP, RATHER THAN WORKING WITH US BEFORE WHERE IT'S EITHER PAY THE FINE OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, WE CAN ROUTE YOU THROUGH COMMUNITY COURT WHERE THEY HAVE FINANCIAL, UH, UH, UH, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO HAVE FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SENATOR TALK THEM ABOUT SOME OTHER ISSUES WITH THEIR INABILITY TO PAY.
UH, WE'RE GONNA OFFER RESOURCES AS FAR AS THE CURRENT RESOURCES THAT THE, UH, COMMUNITY COURT OFFERS FOR EMPLOYMENT, UH, UH, SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, THROUGH A MECHANISM WHERE IF THEY MEET ALL THESE REQUIREMENTS AND WE SUBSIDIZED THEIR FIX-IT TICKETS WITH GETTING THE, THE CARE AND A MICROCHIP STAY NEUTERED, THAT A NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITY HAS PROVIDED US WITH A GRANT TO HELP OFFSET ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL CHARGES THAT THEY MAY HAVE OUT POCKET TO WHERE IT WOULD BE A NO OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSE TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE.
AND THEY GET THE ABILITY TO HAVE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO GET THEM THROUGH AND LIFT THEM UP.
IT'S CALLED THE LIFT UP MODEL.
SO IT'S RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, BUT NOT REMOVING THE PUNITIVE ASPECT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT THE FINE, IT'S ABOUT THE PERSON, AND IT'S ABOUT BEING EQUITABLE
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IN GETTING COMPLIANCE.SO WE ARE, WE ARE HAPPY TO WORK THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND COMMUNITY FORCES EXCITED ABOUT US JOINING THEM, UH, IN THIS, UH, VENTURE.
AND, UH, WE'RE GLAD THAT THEY'RE ALLOWING US TO BE A PART OF IT.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, TO THE GRAPHS TO THE RIGHT, A LARGE PORTION OF THESE AND FEES ARE ACTUALLY NOT BEING COLLECTED.
SO IT, IT WOULDN'T HAVE A BUDGET OR REVENUE IMPACT BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE GETTING NOW, IT IS NOT IN FIRST PLACE.
BUT, UH, WITH THAT, I WILL RETURN
THANK YOU, GOD, THANK YOU SUMMER AND SARAH, EVERYBODY DID A GREAT JOB.
UM, THE LAST SLIDE IS OUR STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE.
WE HOPE TO BE COMPLETED AND HAVE A APPROVED TO SHARE PUBLISHING BY THIS SPRING.
BUT I WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR PILLARS.
WE HAVE PILLAR ONE, ADVANCE, THE DALLAS 90 INITIATIVE.
THAT'S REALLY OUR
PILLAR TWO, FOSTERING SAFE, A SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE AND PETS, WHICH IS FOCUSING ON PUBLIC SAFETY, CHANGING HEARTS AND MINDS, WHICH IS OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, OUTREACH AND MARKETING, ACHIEVING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, WHICH IS OUR CULTURE AND ENHANCING ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT EXEMPLARY CARE.
AND THAT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON OUR FACILITY.
AND, AND WITH THE BOND PROGRAM NOT GOING, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY, WE HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO IN OUR CURRENT FACILITY TO, TO BE ABLE TO, UH, PROPERLY CARE FOR THE ANIMALS.
UM, THE VISION THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH, THAT WE CAME UP WITH AS A GROUP AND THE RETREAT IS FULL HOMES, EMPTY SHELTER, SAFE STREETS, EVERYBODY ON IN THE, ON THE TEAM SEEMS TO LOVE IT.
AND, UM, WHERE WE ARE, WE, WE'VE PULLED TOGETHER EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO DO.
SO NOW WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY DO BECAUSE WE HAVE THESE FIVE LISTS OF THINGS, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO ALL OF THE THINGS.
SO PRIORITIZING THOSE, BREAKING IT DOWN, GIVING IT A TIMELINE AND OWNER AND, UM, AND THEN DEVELOPING THE BROCHURE FOR THE PUBLIC FACING DOCUMENT.
AND THEN WE WILL BE READY TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.
AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE TEAM'S DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THIS.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CONSULTANT ATISA AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN BREAK FROM THE BEGINNING TO, TO GETTING FEEDBACK FROM SOME OF YOU ON THE COMMISSION, FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS, FROM CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, INTERNAL EXTERNAL VOLUNTEERS AND, AND, AND WORKING WITH, YOU KNOW, I AGREE ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS TO DEVELOP THIS.
AND I THINK THAT, UH, THINK EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE REALLY WITH THE FINISH PROJECT AND IT WILL HELP GIVE US, UH, CLARITY BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH WORK TO DO.
THERE IS SO MUCH WORK TO DO AND WE HAVE FINITE RESOURCES AND, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S REALLY JUST TAKE THIS POINTED IN THE DIRECTION TO ADDRESS THE THINGS BY PRIORITY, WHAT TIMELINES, UM, I THINK WILL HELP US BE SUCCESSFUL.
AND THAT IS THE END OF OUR PRESENTATION.
SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD TO, UM, COMMISSIONERS, UM, AND THEIR QUESTIONS, I'D LIKE TO START ONLINE IF POSSIBLE.
UM, IF WE CAN GO AHEAD AND START WITH COMMISSIONER RO.
UH, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, JUST A REMINDER FOR THE CADENCE OF THIS.
SO COMMISSIONERS HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
WE'RE GONNA ASK THAT YOU, UH, PRESENT YOUR COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ALL IN ONE GO, AND THEN STAFF CAN ADDRESS THEM AFTERWARDS.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO MAKE NOTE THAT WE HAVE THREE ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONERS THAT HAVE JOINED US, UM, SINCE THEN.
SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND HAVE THEM INTRODUCE THEMSELVES JUST FOR THE RECORD, AND THEN WE CAN START, UM, ONLINE.
CAN I ASK A QUICK QUESTION? MM-HMM.
IF WE GO OVER THE FIVE MINUTES, 'CAUSE THIS IS OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR.
THAT'S WHEN YOU SAID THIS, WHAT, YOU KNOW, EXPANDED IT.
SO HOW CAN, HOW CAN WE BETTER THAT? SO WHAT WE DO, WE, WHAT WE CAN DO IS SECOND ROUNDS, BUT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW, UH, ROBERT'S RULES.
SO WE WILL HAVE TO GO IN ROUNDS.
UM, STAFF CAN EITHER ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY
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AFTER OR WE CAN HOLD AFTER.BUT UM, ESSENTIALLY TO KEEP THE MEETING FLOWING.
BUT BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THE EXTRA HOUR, WE CAN MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL RABBIT SLIDE.
UM, SO IF WE CAN START WITH, UM, COMMISSIONER LASTER, IF YOU WANNA INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND YOUR DISTRICT, AND THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO THAT WITH COMMISSIONER SED.
AND THEN I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER MOS JOINED US ONLINE AS WELL.
CASSANDRA LASTER, DISTRICT SEVEN AS, UH, ADAM ULA IS MY COUNCIL PERSON.
UH, SAN JOSE DISTRICT 15 MAYOR JOHNSON'S APPOINTEE.
AND COMMISSIONER MO MOS, I JUST SAW YOU.
COMMISSIONER GREG MOS, DISTRICT SIX.
MY COUNCIL MEMBER IS OMAR VEZ.
AND THEN, UM, WHO DID YOU WANNA START WITH ONLINE? UM, BOSKY.
LET'S GO AHEAD WITH, UH, COMMISSIONER STRP THEN, UH, PHIL, THEN MOS.
UM, AND THEN COMMISSIONER SCH STRP, JUST GO AHEAD AND LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
I THINK THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING IS SPAY NEUTER.
I MEAN, LET'S GET 'EM ALL DONE.
AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO TO GET MORE FREE SPAY AND NEUTER.
IS IT MONEY? IS IT IS, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU NEED MORE VETS.
I MEAN, HOW CAN WE GET MORE VETS? HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT MAYBE GOING OUT TO THE VETS WHO HAVE, YOU KNOW, PRACTICE AND SAY, HEY, CAN Y'ALL VOLUNTEER? CAN YOUR TEAM VOLUNTEER A VET FOR ONE DAY A WEEK OR A MONTH OR WHATEVER? UM, YOU KNOW, CAN WE LOOK INTO THAT? UM, I KNOW YOU SAID WHICH, WHICH GOES INTO, YOU SAID YOU HAVE 35 SURGERY DAYS AND YOU NEED TO DO 65, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT'S FOR SPAY AND NEUTER.
UM, MY OTHER QUESTION WAS ON NEONATALS THAT, THAT THEY DIED OR, OR, OR DIDN'T RELEASE OR WHATEVER.
DOES THAT MEAN THEY DIED, WHICH I KNOW IS A HIGH RATE OR, OR PUT TO SLEEP AND, UM, LET'S SEE, DA DA DA.
OH, WERE YOU, YOU HAD A CATEGORY OF PUPPIES, ADULTS AND WHATEVER WAS ADOPTED.
UM, IS IT POSSIBLE OR TOO MUCH TROUBLE TO MAYBE ADD A SENIOR IN THERE? YOU KNOW, IS ARE SENIORS GETTING ADOPTED AND PULL THAT OUT OF ADULTS? UH, UM, OH, AND I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS WHAT TYPE OF SPECIALTY SURGERIES Y'ALL DO AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW WE CAN HELP THE TRAP AND RELEASE PEOPLE.
BECAUSE AGAIN, I THINK SPAY AND NEUTER IS THE MAJOR ONE THING WE NEED TO DO.
IF ALL THE ANIMALS WERE FIXED, WE WOULDN'T HAVE PROBLEM.
UM, WOULD ANY STAFF LIKE TO ADDRESS OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS AT THE END? UH, I'LL GO AHEAD EDWARD.
IS THAT I, I WAS, I WAS GONNA SAY YOU MIGHT, WELL, NEVERMIND.
WHAT WERE YOU, WHAT WHAT'S YOUR I WAS GONNA SAY, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD ALWAYS ADDRESS AT THE END BECAUSE I GUESS IF PEOPLE GET THEIR ANSWER, NEVERMIND.
Y'ALL GO
SO, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS ARE THE SAME, WE HAVE FOUR QUESTIONS.
SO VOLUNTEER PER DAY, UH, MARY MARTIN, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, SHE'S ALREADY MEETING WITH THE HOSPITALS AND, AND WHAT THEY CAN DO TO THE PRIVATE VETERINARIANS TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP SUPPORT US.
THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAVE IN RFP THAT WILL BE COMING OUT FOR, UM, FOR THREE THINGS, FOR AFTER HOURS CARE FOR SPANNER AND FOR, UM, PER DIEM VETERINARIANS.
UM, WE, WE DID, AND I THINK I TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST TIME, WE DID HAVE AN ENHANCEMENT OF $250,000 TO OUR BUDGET FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR SPAY NEUTER.
AND I WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, AND WE PRIORITIZE THAT.
SO WE HAD, I, I'VE HAD 20%, UM, EVERY, EVERY BUDGET CYCLE I ASK FOR 20% MORE, YOU KNOW, AND SO THEN THEY ASK ME WHAT MY TOP THREE TO FIVE PRIORITIES ARE.
SO I'M, I, WE, BECAUSE WE'RE A TEAM, WE ASKED FOR THAT SPAY AND NEUTER FUND ABOVE OTHER STAFF ABOVE HAVING, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED A FACILITY MANAGER, WE WANTED AN AFTER HOURS, LIKE WE WANTED ALL OF THESE THINGS.
BUT WE KNOW THAT SPAY AND NEUTER IS SO IMPORTANT THAT, THAT, THAT $250,000 IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT WE'VE, AND SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIPS
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TOO.UM, PART OF THE RFP IS PARTNERSHIPS TO DO SPAY NEUTER, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE ONLY PERSON THAT I CAN PAY THAT DOWN ANIMAL SERVICES CAN PAY TO DO SPAY NEUTER IS SPAY NEUTER NETWORK.
THAT'S THE ONLY PERSON I CAN PICK THROUGH CITY PROCESSES.
SO, UM, THAT ISN'T, SO WE'RE WORKING WITH TCAP.
WE HAVE ANOTHER FUNDER PAYING FOR THEM.
WE ARE WORKING WITH OPERATING KINDNESS TO DEVELOP SOMETHING.
THE SBCA HAS A NEW DIRECTOR, SO WE'LL, WE'LL, CEO.
SO WE'LL SEE WHAT KIND OF PARTNERSHIP CITED ABOUT.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
SO, UH, ANYWAY, SO VOLUNTEER PER DAY.
NEONATES ARE HARD TO KEEP ALIVE.
THEY'RE HARD TO WANT TO THRIVE.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE A NURSERY, WHICH A LOT OF FOLKS IN THE, A LOT OF SHELTERS NATIONALLY DON'T HAVE A NURSERY.
OUR NURSERY IS OPEN FROM MARCH, APRIL TO OCTOBER, NOVEMBER.
AND SO WE'RE SAVING AS MANY NE DATES AS WE CAN.
UM, AT SENIOR ADOPTION NUMBERS, I SAW SARAH TAKE A NOTE OF IT.
SHE THE ONE WHO HANDLES THE ADOPTIONS AND THEN THE SPECIALTY SURGERIES THAT ARE HAPPENING.
UH, YESTERDAY THERE WAS A NUCLEATION THAT WERE HAPPENING ON CATS THAT, THAT NEEDED THOSE SURGERIES.
UM, WE HAD A POMERANIAN COME IN TWO WEEKS AGO WITH THREE BROKEN LEGS.
AND SO OUR DOCTOR FIXED THAT DOG ENOUGH THAT DIDN'T FIX IT, FIXED IT ENOUGH SO THAT HE COULD GO OFF AND, AND BE, HE GOT SUPPORTED THROUGH CPA'S PAST PROGRAM AND MAKE UP MACY'S MISSION, I BELIEVE.
UM, I THINK HE ACTUALLY WENT
SO, SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS, UM, THE SPECIALTY OF WOUND, WOUND, UM, CARE.
SO THOSE ARE THE KIND OF SPECIALTY SURGERIES THAT WERE DENIED.
AND THOSE ARE THE FOUR QUESTIONS.
UM, AND BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER HILL, COMMISSIONER STREP, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 13 SECONDS OF YOUR ROUND LEFT.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, MELISSA.
YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE ANSWERS ONCE.
COMMISSIONER HILL, WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT.
IT WAS AMAZING AND FULL OF GREAT INFORMATION.
UM, AND I WANTED TO LET MS. RYAN KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S STILL THERE OR NOT, TO NOT GIVE UP ON CATS IN DALLAS, UM, THAT THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS AND PROGRAMS AND PLANS TO HELP THE TEAM OUT THERE THAT'S TRAPPING.
BUT SINCE THAT HAS BEEN AN ISSUE WITH THE LAST TWO MEETINGS THAT I'VE ATTENDED, AND THEN THE ONES BEFORE THAT, I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS REGARDING SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT YOU HAD.
UM, THE FIRST ONE WAS, IS THAT YOU TALKED, UM, ABOUT THE EUTHANASIA OF CATS AND THE TOP REASON FOR EUTHANASIA WAS BECAUSE OF SUFFERING.
AND I WANNA KNOW IF THAT NUMBER'S CHANGED AT ALL SINCE WE STARTED LEAVING ALL CATS ON THE STREETS.
SO COMMUNITY CATS, FRIENDLY CATS, UM, HAS THAT NUMBER ACTUALLY INCREASED OR PERCENTAGE? AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT I HAD WAS HAVE WE ACTUALLY DONE ANY KIND OF, UM, OF ANALYSIS ON HOW MANY CATS DO WE HAVE ON THE STREETS IN DALLAS? HOW MANY DO WE HAVE TO FIX ON A MONTHLY BASIS TO TO, TO GET THE NUMBER TO BE STEADY? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY BELIEVES THAT TNR IS THE ANSWER AND IT IS FOR THOSE CATS THAT ARE ON THE STREET, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOREVER.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST NEVER GONNA STOP.
SO WHAT IS THAT NUMBER? AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THAT NUMBER, WE CAN COME UP WITH A PLAN ON HOW TO ADDRESS THAT NUMBER.
UM, HAS THE CITY EVER CONSIDERED JUST LOOKING FOR A VET WHO CAN DO CAT SURGERIES ONLY? AND, UM, THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I HAD WAS ON THE CITATIONS.
I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THAT 77% WERE OF THE CITATIONS WERE FOR LOOSE DOGS, BUT ONLY 12% GOT CITATIONS FOR NOT SPAY NEUTERED.
SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT THOSE OTHER 65% OF THE ANIMALS WERE FIXED? OR HOW DID THAT NUMBER COME? THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS.
SO THE CAT EUTHANASIA HAS, UM, IF, IF YOU LOOK AT SLIDE, HAVE NUMBERS ON MY TAKE 10, I THINK.
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THE DASHBOARD PERFORMANCE, THE ONLINE OUTCOME REASONS BY SPECIES CATS.SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE WITH THE HUMAN NAMING
AND SO THAT HAS GROWN AT LEAST FOR FISCAL YEAR TO DATE, BACK THROUGH, OVER LAST YEAR.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT FISCAL YEAR 20, THAT IS, SO THE FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 20 WAS PRE COVID.
AND SO THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHEN WE WERE TAKING IN ALL PATHS AND THAT NEVER LOOKED AFTER LARGE OF MM-HMM.
UM, HOW MANY CATS, HOW MANY TO FIX ADDRESS THAT NUMBER? UM, WE, I HAVE WORKED WITH, UH, DR. CHASE BURLEY, WHO IS, UM, A MILLION CAT CHALLENGE AND THE, THE, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY CAT GURU AND, AND ABOUT ING CATS, AND I HAVEN'T SENT IT SPECIFICALLY HERE IN DALLAS, BUT WE WERE TRYING TO ANSWER THESE SAME QUESTIONS IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT I'VE BEEN IN.
AND, UM, AND IT, IT'S, IT'S, WE HAVEN'T FOUND A, A MEANINGFUL WAY AS A ANIMAL WELFARE INDUSTRY TO COUNT CATS.
UM, BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE QUESTION, I CAN GO BACK AND ASK AGAIN AND SEE, SEE IF THERE'S BEEN ANY DATA OR STUDIES THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE MY INFORMATION IS PROBABLY THREE OR FOUR YEARS OLD AT THIS POINT.
UM, THEN HOW MANY TO FIX, UH, YOU KNOW, TO SUMMER'S POINT IN A TARGETED AREA, WE NEED 70% SPAY AND NEUTER TO, TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON INTAKE AND ON GROWTH OF THAT POPULATION.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSING THAT NUMBER AGAIN, UM, THE, AND THEN LOOKING FOR A VE CAT SURGERY, LIKE LOOKING FOR A CAT VET SURGERY, A VETERINARIAN TO DO CAT SURGERY.
AND I'M, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO IT IF WE FOUND THAT PERSON THAT, THAT JUST WANTED TO DO THAT.
BUT PART OF THE THING IS LIKE, THESE CATS ARE ALIVE AND THEY'RE NOT A PUBLIC SAFETY RISK.
AND I HAVE DOGS THAT ARE DYING FOR LACK OF FAILURE, FOR LACK OF SPACE THAT HAVE TO COME TO THE SHELTER BECAUSE THEY ARE A PUBLIC SAFETY RISK AND THEY'RE DYING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T, WE CAN'T DO SPAY NEUTER FAST ENOUGH TO KEEP UP WITH THE OUTCOMES.
AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO SPAY AND NEUTER.
SO, UM, SPAY AND NEUTER FOR EVERYBODY.
AND, AND SO THIS IS A, A REGULAR, YOU KNOW, BUT IF, IF WE HAD A BET WHO CAME UPON US AND SAID, WE ONLY WANT, I ONLY WANNA DO CAT SURGERIES, I'M GONNA TAKE ANY VET WHO WANTS TO BEFORE ME AT THIS POINT.
I MEAN, REALLY, IT, IT, IT'S LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, SO IF, IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY, SEND THEM MY WAY.
I WILL DUMP
UM, THE, UH, AND THEN I HAVE 77 TO 12.
OH, AND THEN, AND WE KNEW THAT THIS WOULD BE A QUESTION BECAUSE OF THE, THE, UM,
SO WE, WE CAN'T ASSUME THAT EVERY DOG THAT GOT AN OUT AT LARGE TICKET WAS NOT SPADER
UH, BUT WE CAN SAY THAT WHEN WE, WHEN, FROM WHAT I HEARD WAS WE WERE TRYING TO NOT PUT SO MUCH OF A BURDEN BECAUSE WE HAVE THE OPTION TO EITHER ISSUE A CITATION OR NOTICE A VIOLATION.
SO THE AT LARGE CITATION WAS THE PRIMARY AND POSSIBLY NOTICE OF THE VIOLATION FOR THE OTHERS, BUT AT SOME POINT HAD TO ISSUE A TICKET.
SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S A VARIATION BETWEEN THOSE TWO.
AND TO TACK ON THAT, SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE IN A POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE WE WERE REALLY TRYING TO BE EQUITABLE AND, AND, UM, EQUITABLE PROBABLY ISN'T.
WE'RE TRYING NOT TO BE BURDENSOME WITH, WITH COVID AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THAT.
AND WE WERE ISSUING MORE VI VIOLATIONS THAN CITATIONS.
TO PAUL'S POINT, UH, WE HAVE, WE ARE RAMPING UP AGAIN, THOSE CITATIONS AGAIN BECAUSE WE REALIZED WE NEED THAT ENFORCEMENT WITH TEETH.
SO THE VIOLATIONS, THAT'S LIKE A FIX IT TICKET.
YOU, YOU CAN DISMISS IT IF YOU WANT TO.
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THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO ENCOURAGE A PERSON TO TAKE THAT, FIX A TICKET AND GET THOSE SERVICES.THE DATA DIDN'T SHOW THAT PEOPLE WERE DOING THAT.
SO WE ARE BACK AT THE CITATION POINT WHERE IT'S AN ENFORCEMENT, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE INTO THE CAP.
UM, SO HOW, HOW DO WE FIND THAT CITATION? AND SO WE HAVE THE, THE ENFORCEMENT T BUT ALSO A WAY TO RECTIFY IT WITHOUT BEING OVERLY BURDENSOME.
AND THAT WAS THE MOVE TO GO THROUGH THE COMMUNITY COURT PROCESS, BECAUSE THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF AVENUES FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL TO WANT TO GAIN.
'CAUSE THE OTHER MOST IMPORTANT THING IS SOMEONE IS NOT JUST MONEY, IT'S TIME.
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO INVEST TIME THROUGH THIS.
AND IT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE COURT ORDER PROCESS.
SO I, I THINK THIS IS A, A WIN-WIN.
WE JUST NEED TO GET THE PROCESS FROM MM-HMM.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENT OR QUESTION, OR IF YOU WISH TO YIELD, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER MOS.
UH, COMMISSIONER MOS, IF YOU COULD TURN ON YOUR CAMERA FOR ME.
UM, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL START YOUR TIMER.
YEAH, SO, SO POINT OF CLARIFICATION, BECAUSE I WAS LATE.
ARE WE ON VIDEO? 'CAUSE I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE APART FROM MYSELF.
IT MIGHT BE YOUR LAYOUT VIEW, BUT I HAVE, UM, AND LET ME THAT'S OKAY.
ONE, UH, ONE IS A COMMENT AND ONE IS, UH, AN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE.
UM, THE COMMENT IS I THINK THE, UH, MELISSA AND TEAM ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB.
UM, IT'S CLEAR TO ME, I SEE THE DAILY REPORT CARDS.
IT'S CLEAR TO ME, UM, THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM OF OVERSUPPLY OF DOGS IN THE CITY AND, UH, AND PEOPLE NOT TAKING DOG OWNERSHIP.
UM, RES YOU KNOW, RES NOT TAKING ON THAT IT'S A 15 TO 20 YEAR HOPEFULLY RESPONSIBILITY, RIGHT? THAT WE TAKE ON, WHETHER THAT'S EDUCATION THROUGH SPAY AND NEUTER, WHETHER THAT'S, UM, UH, REACHING OUTSIDE OF DAS TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE ENFORCE BREEDING, UH, RESTRICTIONS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO THE CONCLUSION IS, UM, I'M, I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY THAT THE EUTHANASIA NUMBERS ARE SO LOW BASED ON NUMBERS.
I SEE LIKE 70 PLUS DOGS COMING IN IN A DAY.
SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS AT SOME POINT HOW, HOW WE WILL DO THAT, RIGHT? HOW WE WILL REACH OUTSIDE OF DAS WORK WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS TO SOLVE WHAT I THINK IS ULTIMATELY AN OVERSUPPLY ISSUE.
AND, UH, AND A POOR EDUCATION ISSUE.
UM, WHICH I THINK YOU, YOU'VE STARTED TO ADDRESS, BY THE WAY.
POINT NUMBER TWO, UH, SINCE THE LAST MEETING, UH, THIS IS A, THIS IS A, UH, CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTION.
UM, SINCE THE LAST MEETING I AS THE SIDE PROJECT SLASH RETIREMENT, UH, PROJECT, I BECAME THE OWNER AND, UH, CHIEF EDITOR OF CANINE MAGAZINE.
IT'S A DIGITAL ONLINE PUBLICATION.
IT'S 23 YEARS OLD, STARTED BY A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND OF MINE IN THE UK.
AND THE MISSION OF THE MAGAZINE IS TO PROVIDE FREE RESOURCES TO HELP PEOPLE LIVE THE BEST LIVES WITH THEIR DOGS AND VICE VERSA.
AND THE REASON I BRING IT UP IS IT IS AFFORDING ME ACCESS TO, UH, MEDIA, RIGHT? SO I'VE SPOKEN A COUPLE OF TIMES, NEVER, NEVER AS COMMISSIONER, ALWAYS AS, AS GREG MOSS, UH, CANINE MAGAZINE OWNER.
I'VE SPOKEN ON THE TOPIC OF THE BREED SPECIFIC LEGISLATION IN THE UK, THE, THE, THE BULLY BAN AND MY POSITION AGAINST IT.
AND, UH, I'M GETTING ACCESS TO SOME CELEBRITIES.
SO WE, WE HAVE COVERS AS WELL.
WHAT CAN I DO TO GET CONTENT FROM THE SHELTER, UH, TO FEATURE IN THIS WITHOUT TAKING ANY CHARGE, WITHOUT TAKING ANY MONEY FOR THIS, I WILL GO TO OTHER ANIMAL SERVICES IF I CAN'T DO IT HERE.
SO, FUNDAMENTALLY, I DON'T SEE THE ISSUE WITH ME ALLOWING DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES TO WRITE ARTICLES FOR ME IN ORDER TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
UM, BUT I'D LIKE THE CONSIDERATION OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN ACCEPT MY HELP ON THIS.
SO, UH, I YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME TO CONVERSATION.
AND IT'S DASP PIO AT DALLAS DO GOV AND WE'LL GET YOU ALL THE CONTENT YOU NEED ON WHATEVER TOPIC YOU WANT.
AND IF WE DON'T HAVE IT, WE WILL CONNECT WITH THE RESOURCE TOGETHER.
AND SINCE THE CITY ATTORNEY DID NOT SHOW UP TODAY, I DON'T SEE A CONFLICT
WELL, NEVER AN EXCHANGE OF MONEY.
AND IT'S FOR THE RECORD, I WILL BE DOUBLE CHECKING WHEN THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND OUR SENIOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONER,
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I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM, BUT WE DO HAVE CONFLICT OF INTEREST FORMS IN THE EVENT THAT WE WOULD NEED TO FILL ONE OUT.SO I'LL CONNECT WITH YOU OFFLINE JUST TO DOUBLE CHECK WHAT THE SCOPE IS OF WHAT CAN BE DONE AND WHAT CAN'T.
AND JILLIAN'S HERE TO KEEP US ALL.
BUT FEEL FREE TO USE THAT EXAMPLE.
I MEAN, I'M, I, I'M OFFERING THE SAME SERVICES TO ANY, UH, ANY PUBLIC SHELTER THAT NEEDS THE ASSISTANCE.
SO IT JUST, IT'S SERENDIPITOUS THAT I, UH, THAT I AM RELATED TO YOUR, THROUGH THIS COMMISSION AND COMMISSIONER MOS.
JUST SO, 'CAUSE I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH SPAM AND EMAIL FILTERS.
UM, I, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT HERE, YOU CAN'T SEE IT.
SARAH IS THE PERSON TO GET IN TOUCH WITH JUST TO OKAY.
IF YOU EMAIL THAT, YOU'LL GET OKAY.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A, A GREAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT, WHAT KIND OF MESSAGING WE CAN GET OUT THERE, BUT PLEASE, YEP.
WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND, UM, GO NEXT TO COMMISSIONER ACCESSOR.
UH, THE FIRST POINT I'D LIKE TO CALL OUT IS A GIANT THANK YOU TO OUR PUBLIC SPEAKER, DEBBIE RYAN.
UM, AND I'D LIKE TO ALSO TAKE JUST A MOMENT OF SILENCE TO RECOGNIZE AMANDA SMITH AND HER PASSING LAST YEAR.
UM, I WILL COMMUNICATE YOUR CONCERNS WITH MY COUNCIL MEMBER AS I THINK ALL OF OUR COMMISSIONERS ON THE A A C WILL DO.
AND WE'LL TRY OUR HARDEST TO GET, UM, AS MUCH, UH, DONE, UH, FOR TNR THIS YEAR AS WE CAN POSSIBLY DO.
POINT NUMBER TWO, UH, FOR MELISSA, UM, I HAD A QUESTION REGARDING THE DATA.
WHEN I LOOK AT, UH, FISCAL YEAR TO DATE 24, IS THAT ONLY THREE MONTHS DATA FOR OUR GRAPHS AND CHARTS? YES.
SO WE'RE ANTICIPATING SOME PRETTY BIG MOVEMENTS IN MOST OF THE GRAPHS AND CHARTS YOU PRESENTED TODAY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS YEAR.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD.
FOR THE REST OF THE OTHER FISCAL YEAR TO DATES, THOSE ARE FULL 12 MONTH ITEMS COMPARED TO FISCAL YEAR TO DATE 24, WHICH IS ONLY THREE MONTHS ON, ON THE COMPARISON ON EACH GRAPH.
SO IF THAT'S WHERE WE WERE FOR FISCAL YEAR TO DATE ON EACH GRAPH, SO WE'RE MEASURING OURSELVES, THESE ARE QUARTER ONE.
SO OUR QUARTER IS OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER.
SO WE'RE MEASURING OURSELVES COMPARED TO THAT QUARTER.
YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO DOUBLE CHECK THAT, SO THAT'S GOOD.
UM, THIRD, UM, SO ACTUALLY THAT KNOCKS OUT A FEW THINGS.
SO LET ME JUMP TO, UM, SARAH, UM, AS A QUICK, UH, REQUEST IN THE FUTURE, CAN WE SEE A RECAP FOR HOW VOLUNTEER HOURS IMPACTED THOSE CORE STATS AND GRAPHS, UM, CALLED OUT A LOT OF AWESOME NUMBERS AND FIGURES AND VOLUNTEERS, BUT HOW MANY ANIMALS DID WE ADOPT? HOW MANY, UH, QUAL OR HOW MUCH BETTER WAS THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE ANIMALS? UM, NUMBER SIX.
UM, CAN WE ASK FOR A ONE PAGER, UM, OR A LINK FOR BEST, BEST PRACTICES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE OUR DISTRICT, UH, SO THEY CAN WRITE IN THEIR NEWSLETTERS.
I'D LOVE TO HAVE CHAD WEST'S NEWSLETTER COME TO MY EMAIL.
AND THEN I SEE A GIANT SECTION AT THE BOTTOM OF BEST PRACTICES FOR MY NEIGHBORS TO FOLLOW.
FOR ANIMALS OR COMMUNITY CATS.
AND THEN FOR PAUL, UH, CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW BADGES.
UM, THANK YOU FOR CLEARLY CALLING OUT HOW DSS IS INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, INCLUDING ANIMAL CRUELTY, FINES AND FEES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
I THINK IT CLEARS UP A LOT OF WHAT OUR, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR.
AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT CALL OUT.
UM, AND THEN I ENCOURAGE EVERY DALLAS, UH, DALLAS SITE TO READ THAT THIS PRESENTATION SO THAT THEY CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT.
AND THEN ACTUALLY BACK TO SARAH.
UM, I'D LOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DISTRICT EVENTS THAT YOU HELD.
CAN WE AS COMMISSIONERS, UH, JUST GET A RECAP OF THOSE SO THAT WE CAN PROPOSE THOSE TO OUR DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAYBE GET SOME MORE THINGS GOING.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR, UH, EFFORTS, UM, IN 2023.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PRETTY FANTASTIC 2024.
LOOKING FORWARD TO HELPING AS BEST I CAN BUILD MY TIME.
YEAH, THAT WAS, NO, THEY, THEY JUST, TED.
COMMISSIONER GEARING, WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, JUST LET ME KNOW.
UM, FIRST, I, I DON'T THINK SHE'S HERE ANYMORE, BUT I ALSO WANNA THANK DEBBIE RYAN FOR SHOWING UP.
I KNOW, UM, THE CAT LADIES AND I, I, THAT'S THE ACTUAL
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NAME, BUT THE, THE COMMUNITY, UH, MEMBERS WHO WORK SO HARD ON, UM, TNR AND, AND SPAYING THESE CATS ARE, ARE, I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE HERE AND THEY SHOW UP, UM, AND THAT THEY DO THIS FOR OUR COMMUNITY.AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD HAS A TON OF CATS THAT IT'S, UM, WE'VE HELPED TRAP AND RELEASE AS WELL.
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF, UM, CHANGES AND ADVERSITY THIS LAST YEAR.
OBVIOUSLY, UM, YOU GUYS HAVE PIVOTED WITH THE CHANGE IN CRUELTY CASES.
UM, YOU'VE HAD TO RESPOND TO THESE, YOU KNOW, HUGE, UM, INTAKES OF ROOSTERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I JUST KNOW THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL BURDEN ON DAS WITH EVERYTHING ELSE THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH AND TRYING TO SAVE DOGS AND CATS.
I KNOW THAT THAT'S, UM, JUST ANOTHER HURDLE AND I, I THINK IT WAS HANDLED REALLY WELL, AND I'M JUST PROUD TO SEE OF ALL, ALL THE PROGRESS THAT, THAT YOU GUYS HAVE MADE, UH, YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE MADE.
I ALSO JUST REALLY APPRECIATE KIND OF THE, UM, YOUR WHOLE TEAMWORK APPROACH AND HOW UNIFIED DAS SEEMS TO BE.
AND I, I JUST THINK THAT'S REALLY GREAT.
UM, PAUL, ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL THE HIRING.
I KNOW THAT'S BEEN HUGE THIS YEAR.
UM, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING AN EQUITABLE APPROACH AND WORKING REALLY HARD TO TAKE AN EQUITABLE APPROACH WHEN IT COMES TO TICKETS AND FINES AND FEES, UM, FOR LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY THAT WANNA HAVE PETS.
AND I THINK THAT'S A REALLY, REALLY GREAT APPROACH.
I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
I WANTED TO KNOW, UM, IF THERE ARE ANY PROGRAMS HELPING UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE PETS DURING THE STORM AND WITH THE, UM, HOW WE'VE HAD THE FREEZE THE LAST WEEK.
I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN WARMING CENTERS SET UP AROUND FAIR PARK, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THEY TAKE ANIMALS, SO I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF THEY DO.
I WANNA KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER PROGRAMS OR HOW WE'RE HANDLING UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE PETS DURING THE STORM.
UM, AND THEN, UH, SUMMER ARE WELCOME TO THE TEAM.
I WANTED TO KNOW IF WE COULD JUST TALK FOR A SECOND ABOUT THE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK SITUATION THAT, UM, DEBBIE WANTED TO ASK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE.
OBVIOUSLY, WE UNDERSTAND THAT JS HAS A LOT OF OTHER PRIORITIES AND THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE DOGS, BUT I KNOW OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A LOT OF, UM, WE GET PUBLIC SPEAKERS AT EVERY MEETING TALKING ABOUT THAT SITUATION AND THE WEIGHT.
SO I JUST WANTED TO KNOW HOW THAT'S GOING, IF YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO CHANGE THAT OR WORK WITH THAT PROGRAM.
UM, AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION WAS FOR MELISSA, AND IT WAS ABOUT EDUCATION INITIATIVES.
THAT'S WHY WE ARE JUST SO INUNDATED WITH DOGS AND, AND YOU'RE MAKING THESE DIFFICULT DECISIONS EVERY DAY.
UM, AND I ALSO KNOW THAT YOU'RE SPREAD THIN.
ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO SPEAK TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN OR, UM, ANY OF THE PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DALLAS ABOUT PROPER ANIMAL MAINTENANCE, SPAY NEUTER, THINGS LIKE THAT ANIMAL, YOU KNOW, HANDLING INTERACTION WITH, WITH PETS? SO, JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF THAT WAS, ANY OF THOSE WERE ON THERE.
UM, IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT ANY OF THOSE INITIATIVES, AND I'M GONNA TAKE ALL THREE OF 'EM UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING.
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING ON THE SPAY NEU NETWORK? I WAS JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT THE INCREASE IN SSR AND HOW THAT ACTUALLY IMPACTS AND, AND THE SPAY N BASE THAT YES.
SO, UM, YEAH, SO WHAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED, UM, JUST IN THE LAST QUARTER IS HOW I SPOKE TO THOSE SR NUMBERS, INCREASING THE NUMBERS THAT WE CAN SERVE.
SO IT USED TO BE IF YOU CALL 3 1 1, YOU GOT YOUR SR NUMBER, YOU GO TO SPAY NEUTER NETWORK, UM, YOU CAN BRING TWO CATS.
UM, AND SO EACH LOCATION WITHIN THE SERVING, UM, ABOUT SIX CATS, UH, THEY TAKE ABOUT THREE SRSS THAT DAY, ABOUT SIX CATS.
UM, WE'VE INCREASED IT TO FOUR.
SO NOW THEY'RE ABLE TO SERVE 12 CATS.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE REALLY DOUBLED THE IMPACT.
UM, AND THAT IS REALLY AS A RESULT OF THE INCREASE IN SPAY N FUNDING, THOSE SRSS ARE PAID FOR BY THE CITY OF DALLAS THROUGH OUR FUNDING.
SO THE TWO SSR THAT I, OR THE TWO CATS PER SSR THAT I KNOW, I, I WOULD HEAR WAS A STRUGGLE FOR EVERYONE, WAS REALLY BASED OFF OF, UM, THE BUDGET OF WHAT WE COULD AFFORD 2K AS BIG NEUTER NETWORK FOR THOSE SRSS.
SO WITH THE INCREASE IN FUNDING, WE'VE DOUBLED THE IMPACT, UM, OF WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THROUGH SPAN NEUTER NETWORK.
WE ALSO, THROUGH THE TARGETED, UM, AREAS WE'RE DOING, WE ARE, UM, HAVING LARGER TRACK DAYS.
SO, UM, A LOT OF THOSE CATS THAT WE'RE TAKING TO SPAY NEUTER NETWORK ARE ON DAYS WHERE THEY'RE OFFERING TO DO ANYWHERE FROM SEVEN TO 70 TO A HUNDRED CAT SURGERIES THAT DAY.
AND THAT'S FOR THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS DAS.
SO WE USUALLY TRY TO TAKE ABOUT 20
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TO 30 CATS ON THOSE DAYS.UH, IT DEPENDS ON HOW THE TRAPPING GOES IN THE MORNING.
OF COURSE, SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.
UM, WE HAVE SEEN ON SOME DAYS WHERE JORDAN, UM, AT SPAY NETWORK WILL ASK US TO BRING EXTRA CATS IF WE'RE ABLE TO, BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT SHOW UP FOR THOSE.
WE HAVE BEEN, UM, REALLY TRYING TO PROMOTE THOSE LARGE TNR DAYS MORE.
SO I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, SARAH'S TEAM'S DOING A GREAT JOB OF SHARING WHEN THOSE DAYS ARE GONNA BE TO TRY TO GET THE WORD OUT SO THAT OUR, UM, TRAPPERS IN THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT THERE ARE EXTRA SPAY NEUTER SLOTS THOSE DAYS.
UM, AND SO THEY CAN BRING, UH, MORE THAN THOSE FOUR THAT THEY WOULD NORMALLY BE ABLE TO BRING.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO DO TWO OF THOSE A MONTH, UM, AND, UH, AND REALLY TRY TO GET AHEAD OF IT AND PROMOTE THEM IN ADVANCE SO PEOPLE CAN PLAN TO TRAP, UH, THE NIGHT BEFORE, THE MORNING OF AND, AND BRING IN LARGER QUANTITIES OF CAP OF THE, AND SOME, AND, AND THEN THOSE, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE BEING PAID FOR.
WE PAID FOR SOME OF THOSE DAYS.
BELLA
WE HAVE SEEN, EVEN WITH PUSHING THE MESSAGING THAT THEY'RE AVAILABLE, WE'VE, WE'VE PAID FOR DAYS AND LEFT AND LEFT WITH VACANT SURGERIES.
SO THAT'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, BUT WHICH WE KNOW THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, BUT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GET THE HOSE TO THE HOUSE.
SO, UM, STILL A WORK IN PROBLEMS AS FAR AS THE INCLEMENT WEATHER CENTER PETS.
SO IN THIS, UM, IN THIS, THIS WEATHER EVENT, UH, WE STARTED WITH FAIR PARK, AND WHEN I SAY WE, I MEAN THE CITY OF DALLAS STARTED WITH FAIR PARK PETS WERE ACCEPTED, ARE ACCEPTED AT FAIR PARK, AND WHEN THEY GOT IT CAPACITY, THEY WENT TO AUSTIN STREET, WHERE ALSO PETS WERE ACCEPTED.
AND THEN WHEN THEY GOT CAPACITY, I'M NOT, THEN OAK LAWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ALSO OPENED FOR A DAY OR TWO.
UH, UH, AUSTIN STREET HAD FOUR DOGS, AND THE CHURCH HAD TWO DOGS AND ONE CAT.
UM, THE ORIGINAL, UH, SPCA PROVIDED THE CRATES FOR ALL OF THAT.
AND THEN, UM, DAS ACTUALLY HAS BEEN, UH, ALL OF THE WEATHER CENTERS PROVIDING SUPPORT AND RESOURCES TO THOSE PETS.
UM, WE, WE WEREN'T PART OF THE PLAN FOR THIS ONE AT THE BEGINNING NECESSARILY, BUT GOING FORWARD, WE WILL BE A PARTNER AT THE BEGINNING AND HELP THEM AT THE INCLEMENT WEATHER CENTERS.
UM, IT HAS BEEN, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL BE STANDING UP, WE'LL BE HELPING THEM SET UP THE FILTER INSTEAD OF COMING IN.
LIKE HOW WE, WE GOT THE CALL, IT WAS KIND OF, ANYWAY, WE'RE THERE, WE'RE, WE'RE HELPING
SO AS ONE OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS, I WOULD ALWAYS LET THEM KNOW, WE'RE HERE TO ASSIST IN WHATEVER NEED YOU HAD DURING THIS WEATHER EVENT.
WE HAD OVER 400 CALLS PER SERVICE FOR WEATHER.
AND OUR TEAM ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THOSE RAPIDLY.
AND, AND KUDOS TO THE FIELD OPERATIONS TEAM, KUDOS TO THE SHELTER TEAM FOR COMING IN AND TAKE CARE OF THE PETS.
AND THEN KUDOS TO, TO OUR OUTCOMES BECAUSE WE STILL HAD OUTCOMES.
WE WERE OPEN DURING THIS ENTIRE EVENT, AND WE STILL WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH GETTING SOME OUTCOMES.
AND, AND MELISSA'S BEEN, UH, IN DISCUSSIONS TOO ABOUT THE NEXT TIME THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO TAKE A BIGGER STEP IN HELPING TOO.
CAN YOU REPEAT THE NUMBER OF CALLS? WE COULDN'T HEAR IT OVER HERE.
HOW MANY? UH, AS OF YESTERDAY, WE QUIT TRACKING 'EM TODAY, BUT AS OF YESTERDAY, IT WAS, I BELIEVE 394 CALLS WE 388 THAT WE RESPONDED TO.
SO IT, IT, IT, WE UNFORTUNATELY HAD THE ISSUE, UH, I THINK IT WAS 117 NOTICES, VIOLATION, BUT WE HAD GOT A LOT OF COMPLIANCE.
WE HAD ONE DAY, I BELIEVE TODAY, GETTING MY DAYS ALL MIXED UP, BUT ONE DAY THAT DIDN'T TRIGGER THE INCLEMENT WEATHER STATIONS.
BUT THEN WE'RE GOING BACK INTO THE WEATHER FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, AND SO THEY'RE GONNA STAY OPEN.
THE CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSED, AND THOSE FOLKS WERE, WERE DIVERTED TO AUSTIN STREET.
UM, I DON'T BELIEVE, I'M NOT SURE ANY PETS WENT, BUT, UM, SO WE'LL CONTINUE SUPPORTING
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THEM THROUGHOUT THE, THROUGHOUT THE, UM, THE EVENT.AND THEN ALSO ON THAT, OUR STAFF, I DO HAVE TO SHOUT OUT, WE HAD STAFF THAT STAYED IN HOTELS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE PRECIPITATION WOULD BE.
SO WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE ROADS WOULD BE LIKE.
SO TWO NIGHTS WE HAD STAFF INCLUDING MARY, UM, STAYING IN HOTELS SO THAT THEY COULD BE CLOSE BY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BE AT THE SHELTER CARING FOR THE ANIMALS.
AND THEY ALSO MADE IT SO THAT WE WERE ABLE TO STAY OPEN.
AND, AND HAD THERE BEEN, HAD THE ROADS BEEN BEEN TREACHEROUS, WE WOULD'VE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE.
WE WOULD'VE CLOSED SO THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T COME ON THE ROAD.
BUT INSTEAD OUR MESSAGING WAS, YOU KNOW, STAY SAFE AND WARM, BUT IF YOU NEED US, WE'RE HERE.
WE HAD AMAZING OUTCOMES FOR, FOR THOSE DAYS.
SO, UM, EDUCATION INITIATIVES AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO DO, EDUCATION AND ANIMAL WELFARE IS, IT'S LIKE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS GETS PUSHED ASIDE WITH THE BUDGETING BECAUSE THERE'S NO METRICS TO BACK IT UP.
BUT IT'S AN AMAZING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE WORKED WITH RED ROVER BEFORE.
IT IS THE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO CONTINUE, AND I, IT IT WILL ALSO BE ADDED AS PART OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE KATHY PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY COURTS IS THAT EDUCATION FOR THE NOT IN COMPLIANCE.
WE'LL HAVE AN OFFICER GO PERIODICALLY TO THE COURT TO PROVIDE A TRAINING CLASS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE.
AND WE DO DO EDUCATION AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS.
BUT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS, LIKE REALLY GETTING US EMBEDDED IN THE SCHOOLS, ALMOST.
I SHOULD ADD, I USED TO VOLUNTEER WITH COMMUNITY COURT'S.
SUCH AN AMAZING ORGANIZATION, A AMAZING PROGRAM.
AND IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU WOULD NEED COMMISSIONERS TO VOLUNTEER FOR SOME OF THESE EDUCATION EFFORTS, I'M SURE MANY OF US WOULD BE HAPPY TO DO THAT.
UH, WE WILL GO NEXT TO COMMISSIONER CASEY, AND LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY.
UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS ON STAFF AND OUR COMMISSION HERE THAT COMMISSIONER HILL FOUNDED THE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK.
SO SHE JUST IS ON THE BOARD NOW AND RETIRED FROM OPERATIONS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
BUT SHE'S A GREAT RESOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THAT AND, YOU KNOW, DATA AND JUST KIND OF UNDERSTANDING THE OPERATIONS TO COLLABORATE WITH THAT.
UM, SUMMER, I'M WONDERING, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SORT OF A GROUP OF SUPER TRAPPERS, RIGHT?
AND I'M WONDERING ABOUT AN EMAIL LIST FOR THEM WHERE YOU CAN CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY INSTEAD OF JUST HOPING THEY CATCH SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN THEY KNOW THAT THERE'S DOWNTIME EITHER DAY OF OR GIVING THEM THE ADVANCED WARNING.
'CAUSE I'M SURE THEY'LL GET OUT THERE, PULL IN THEIR RESOURCES AND GET THOSE TRAPS FULL AND OVER THERE TO THAT, UH, TO THE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK.
UM, ALSO SPEAKER RYAN, I KNOW SHE'S GONE, BUT IF ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE ARE WATCHING, DON'T GIVE UP.
DALLAS CAN DO IT, WE CAN, OUR CITIZENSHIP CAN DO IT.
UM, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE VOLUNTEER STUFF AND ALSO SHOUT OUT A FEW REALLY STRONG VOLUNTEERS.
UM, WITH THE EVENTS RAMP UP, THAT'S ALMOST ENTIRELY DUE TO A VOLUNTEER CALLED NAME SARAH JONES.
AND SHE'S NOT ONLY CREATING A BUNCH OF OPPORTUNITIES, BUT SHE'S ALSO CHANGING THAT THEY'RE MORE COMFORTABLE FOR THE DOG.
SO, YOU KNOW, ALMOST ALL EVENTS WHERE YOU SEE DOGS BEING ADOPTED, THEY LOOK SORT OF SCARED IN CAGES AND JUST OUT IN THE OPEN AND IT'S SORT OF LOUD AND PEOPLE ARE WALKING BY, WHICH IS NOT COMFORTABLE FOR THE DOGS, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE THEMSELVES.
IT'S NOT GONNA ENCOURAGE THE CONNECTION AND ADOPTION.
AND SOMETHING LIKE THE CUDDLE UP AND READ EVENT IS REALLY TERRIFIC.
IT'S AT HALF PRICE BOOKS WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GO AND READ WITH THEM, AND SO THEY CAN REALLY BE SHOWN BETTER.
SO SHE'S DOING TERRIFIC WORK ON THAT FRONT.
UM, THERE'S TWO VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE DOING VERY HIGH VOLUME MEDIA.
THE, UH, THE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF THE DOGS THAT GET SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC OR THE RESCUES.
UM, LIZ FOSTER IS A VOLUNTEER ON THAT FRONT WHERE SHE JUST GOES AND DOES VERY HIGH VOLUME OF SHOWING THE DOGS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IF THEY'RE NOT OUT THERE, THEY'RE JUST NOT VISIBLE, THEY'RE NOT SEEN.
AND WHEN PEOPLE GO TO THE ANIMAL SHELTER, IT'S CAN BE OVERWHELMING WITH ALL THE SPACE, SO MANY DOGS, THE STRESS OF IT, YOU KNOW, THE SMELL
AND SO HAVING THOSE, UH, THAT MEDIA OUT THERE IS SO HELPFUL TO MOVING THE ANIMALS, OR AT LEAST PEOPLE HAVE AN IDEA OF, I WANNA SEE THESE ANIMALS.
AND ALSO, PAT RODRIGUEZ IS A VOLUNTEER THAT SUPPORTS THE RESCUE TEAM HEAVILY ON THAT FRONT.
SO THAT, UH, THE RESCUE TEAM JUST DID NOT HAVE THE TIME ON STAFF TO GO AND GET THAT FOOTAGE.
AND SEEING THE DOGS IN MOTION, THE NOTES ABOUT THEM IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL FOR.
SO, YOU KNOW, GETTING THAT MEDIA OUT THERE FROM A VOLUNTEER STANDPOINT HAS JUST, I THINK THAT THAT'S A HUGE REASON WHY WE'RE SEEING THE, THE GREATER NUMBERS, BECAUSE YOU GET MORE OF A SENSE OF WHO THE ANIMALS ARE.
UM, ALSO WITH PAUL, I THINK THE NEW TICKETING CITATION STRATEGY, FANTASTIC.
SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE, 'CAUSE YOU SEE ALL THE TIME IN COMMENTARY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, JUST GIVE THEM THEM A TICKET, JUST FIND THEM.
BUT IF PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD IT OR THEY DON'T THINK I'M GONNA SPEND
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MY MONEY ON MY ANIMAL, THEN WE HAVE MORE STRAYS BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING AND DUMPING THEM OR THEY'RE FINDING WAYS TO KILL THEM OR THINGS THAT WE DON'T WANNA THINK ABOUT.AND SO THAT APPROACH OF TYING THE EDUCATION AND, YOU KNOW, THE CULTURAL CHANGE, WELL, SUPER FANTASTIC.
MM-HMM,
ANY COMMENTS FROM STAFF? DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE AND 59 SECONDS REMAINING OF YOUR TIME? YOU'D LIKE TO? I'M GOOD.
UM, COMMISSIONER LASTER, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
JUST A COUPLE QUICK QUESTIONS.
UM, ON THE SLIDE, UH, ADDRESSING THE LOOSE DOGS, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN A PREVIOUS MEETING, BUT WHAT, WHAT IS SOME OF THE LARGEST FACTORS OF HAVING SUCH A HIGH NUMBER OF LOOSE DOGS? UM, IS IT LIKE BACKYARDS NOT BEING, YOU KNOW, FENCING OR WHATEVER? AND, UM, THAT WAS ONE QUESTION.
JUST KIND OF WANT TO LOOK AT THAT AGAIN.
UH, THE DATA IS, IS THE DATA THAT IS USED ON THE HIGH VOLUME OF LOOSE DOGS, IS THAT USED TO DRIVE LIKE WE'RE GONNA HAVE X AMOUNT OF, UH, LOW COST OR FREE VACCINES IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA SINCE THEY ARE LOOSE? UM, AND MY OTHER QUESTION IS TALKING ABOUT THE, THE, THE LACK OF, UM, STAFFING OR, UH, MEDICAL TEAMS FOR THE S SPADE AND NEUTERING IS, HAVE WE LOOKED AT REACHING OUT TO INDIVIDUAL PRACTICES? UM, AND JUST LIKE, OKAY, CAN YOU, UH, CAN WE CONTRACT YOU ONE DAY PER QUARTER OR ONE DAY PER, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN BUSINESSES AND THEY HAVE TO RUN THEIR OWN, UH, THING.
BUT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, IF IT WAS PER QUARTER PER SIX MONTHS, IF THAT WOULD BE A OPTION.
UM, DEFINITELY NOT PROPOSING THAT, UM, PEOPLE NOT BE PAID, BUT MAYBE AS A CONTRACTED 10 99, THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT PART-TIME AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO JUST LIKE, COMMIT THIS AMOUNT OF TIME.
UM, AND THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS.
UM, IF I MISS ANYTHING, GO AHEAD AND CHIME AWAY ON THE LOOSE.
SO OUR, OUR LOOSE AND LOOSE DOG CALLS ARE DOWN, BUT OUR LOSE AND LOSE DOG BITES ARE UP IN THE HEAT MAP.
A LOT OF OUR, THAT DOES INFORM OUR RESOURCES THAT BECAUSE IT CORRELATES WHERE, UM, THERE ARE THAT SERVICE DESERTS, THEN, THEN THAT IS PART OF WHERE WE FOCUS A LOT OF OUR SERVICES SUCH AS VACCINE CLINICS AND THINGS, UM, WITH THE PRIVATE VETERINARIANS.
SO WE DO HAVE AN RFP THAT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
WE'LL HAVE THREE PARTS AND, AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS AFTER HOURS CARE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SUBMIT FOR ALL THREE OF THEM.
YOU CAN SUBMIT FOR ALL THREE OF THEM OR ONE, BUT IT'S THE ONE FOR AFTER HOURS CARE FOR SPAY OR SURGERY AND FOR, UM, PER DIEMS. AND, UM, SO THEN ONCE WE DO THAT, THAT WILL GIVE US THE ABILITY TO PAY PEOPLE.
RIGHT NOW, SO MARY HAS BEEN REACHING OUT TO PRIVATE AND HAS GONE AND MET WITH PRIVATE, UH, VETERINARIANS.
RIGHT NOW WE DON'T, THE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE CITY PROCESS, THE ONLY PERSON ENTITY THAT WE'RE ABLE TO PAY IS SPAY NETWORK.
SO EVEN SO SHE'S TRYING TO DRUM UP PEOPLE AND SUPPORT SO THAT WHEN THE RFT COMES OUT THAT THEY'LL BID ON IT BE, AND WE'RE, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR MULTIPLE, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ONE WINNER.
WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE MULTIPLE VENDORS, LIKE ANYBODY WHO CAN MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF EITHER ONE OF THE SECTION OR ALL OF THE SECTIONS OF THE RFP BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANNA BE IN THIS PLACE WHERE WE, WE CAN ONLY PAY ONE.
WE'RE HOPING, YOU KNOW, I HEARD OPERATION KIND SPC, WE WANT TO HAVE PARTNERSHIPS AND, AND THE ABILITY AS LONG AS WELL AS THE, UM, PRIVATE TO MACY'S MISSION AND, UH, YOU KNOW, VEG, ALL OF, LIKE, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PAY ALL THE PEOPLE FOR ALL OF THE THINGS ALL OF THE TIME.
SO, UM, WITHIN OUR BUDGET, OF COURSE THAT'S A, IT'S A CITY APPROVAL PROCESS IS THAT IT IS A PROBLEM.
AND IF, AND IF I COULD ADD TO THAT, IF WE WERE TO TAKE THAT HEAT MAP AND OVERLAY IT ON THE CEE PROJECT, THEY WOULD PROBABLY MIRROR.
SO IN ADDRESSING THE CAFE, HOPEFULLY WE CAN ADDRESS THIS SAME ISSUE.
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COULD SOME DOGS, IT COULD BE A LACK OF RESOURCES AND FENCING, IT COULD BE WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, EDUCATION RESOURCES.WE HOPE TO TRY AND AND REMEDY THAT AT THE SAME TIME.
AND TO ADD TO THAT, IF I MAY, UM, IS WE ARE WORKING WITH A CONSULTANT, UM, JV ROBERTSON, DR. ROBERTSON, JOIE ROBERTSON, UM, SHE WAS A SHELTER VETERINARIAN, BUT NOW SHE IS, UM, A CONSULTANT, BUT WE'RE WORKING WITH HER ON A PROJECT THAT WE'RE CALLING LEASH 1 0 1.
AND IT REALLY ISN'T JUST ABOUT LEASH DOGS, BUT CONFINED DOGS.
AND SO MEETING, AND, AND SHE MAY, MAY HAVE REACHED OUT TO SOME OF YOU, I KNOW THAT PAUL'S WORKING WITH HER.
WE'RE LOOKING TO DEVELOP A, A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR A MULTI-YEAR APPROACH FOR, UM, TO COME INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE COMMUNITIES TO WORK ALONGSIDE WITH PEOPLE TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS TAKING THEM OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE CODE, MAINLY ON CONFINEMENT AND NOT CALLING IT, YOU KNOW, UM, OR RESPONSIBILITY.
BUT HOW YOU SHOW UP IN LIFE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT FOR HOW I SHOW UP IN LIFE.
NEITHER ONE OF US ARE RIGHT OR WRONG, BUT WE ALL NEED TO WORK WITHIN IN THE CITY ORDINANCES AND, AND WE'RE SPECIFICALLY TRYING TO ADDRESS THOSE, THOSE DOGS.
AND SO THIS IS, AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE A MULTI-YEAR PROJECT, BUT WE'RE HOPING THAT BY WORKING WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS, NOT MELISSA GOING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING AND SAYING, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO, THAT ACTUAL VOICES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND, AND HAVING A NONPROFIT LEAD THAT CHARGE, WHO, WHO GETS THE, UM, WHO GETS THE CONTRACT BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T GET THE CALLS FROM, FROM SOME OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS AS MUCH, BUT THEY HAVE LOOSE DOGS TOO.
IT'S JUST A DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT CULTURE, DIFFERENT REASON, DIFFERENT.
BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE WHEN, SORRY, I'M, I'M ON A LITTLE BIT OF A TANGENT, BUT I'LL WRAP IT UP.
WHEN I, WHEN I'M LOOKING AT DANGEROUS DOG CASES, OFTEN, NO, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN, UM, THERE REALLY ISN'T ANYTHING THAT THE DOGS HAVE DONE.
IT NEEDS THE MERIT BECAUSE SOMEBODY FELT, BUT IT'S REALLY A NEIGHBOR DISPUTE.
AND SO THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT HAPPENED FROM THOSE DOGS.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL ACROSS THE CITY OF DALLAS, BUT NOT JUST, JUST IN SOUTHERN DALLAS, WHERE, WHERE THE HEAT MAP IS SHOWING.
SO WORKING ON THIS LEASH MILE ONE CAMPAIGN WITH DR. ROBERTSON, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO, FROM A COMMUNITY PLACE, HAVING THE COMMUNITY HELP US ADDRESS THE LOOSE DOG PROBLEM AND KEEP DOGS CONFINED WITH THE, TO STAY IN LINE WITH THE CITY CODE.
DON'T, DON'T TAKE HER TIME AWAY FROM HER
AND IF, AND IF I HAVE NOT REACHED OUT TO SOME OF YOU FOR INPUT WITH THE THIS PROCESS, I, I MAY BE DOING SO BECAUSE, UH, DR. ROBERTSON IS NEEDING GETTING TO GET INPUT FROM STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS YOURSELF AS THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE, UH, ANIMAL BRA COMMISSION TO GET YOUR INPUT ON WHAT YOU FEEL THE ISSUES MAY BE.
MAY I JUST ADD TO ALSO WHAT WE'RE DOING CURRENTLY WHEN WE DO HAVE ANIMALS THAT COME IN ASTRAY OR PET SUPPORT TEAM, IF SOMEBODY IS COMING TO RECLAIM THEM AND SAYS THAT THEIR DOG IS CONTINUALLY GETTING OUT OF FENCE OR THEY DON'T HAVE MONEY TO REPAIR THEIR FENCE, WE DO WORK WITH OUR PAST PROGRAM IN DPA, AND I KNOW IN THE LAST MONTH WE, UH, THROUGH PAST HAVE HAD TWO RESIDENTS, UM, HAVE THEIR FENCES REPAIRED THROUGH THE PAST PROGRAM SO THAT THEIR ANIMAL DOESN'T REINTER THE SHELTER.
SO, SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT WORK NOW TOO THAT I THINK ARE LESS TARGETED, BUT YEAH.
UM, COMMISSIONER LASTER, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND, UH, 16 SECONDS REMAINING UNLESS YOU'D LIKE TO YIELD.
UH, COMMISSIONER FAULKNER DUN, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU ARE READY, YOUR TIME.
FIRST THANK YOU FROM THIS A FABULOUS REPORT.
AND, UM, AND AS I WAS SAYING TO SOME OF YOU BEFORE THE MEETING STARTED, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY IT FOR THE RECORD, I AM SO BLOWN AWAY BY THE SUCCESS OF THE FOSTER PROGRAM.
I MEAN, THIS IS A, THIS SHELTER DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A FOSTER PROGRAM LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AGO BECAUSE MY RESCUE WAS KIND OF DOING IT PROBABLY ILLEGALLY.
LIKE WE WOULD TAKE DOGS AND WE WOULD TAKE 'EM HOME, AND THEN WE WOULD COME BACK AND THEN ADOPT 'EM AT THE SHELTER AND WE'D PAY OUR OWN BILLS.
I MEAN, WE WERE JUST, WE WERE JUST STUPID.
WE WEREN'T, I NEVER SAID WE WERE LIKE GOOD AT FUNDRAISING
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AND, UM, I'M JUST, I MEAN, MEAN WE'D HAVE, YOU KNOW, THERE'D BE MAYBE 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 DOGS OUT.THIS IS THE NUMBERS OF, OF THE, THE FOSTER PROGRAM IS JUST SO INCREDIBLE.
AND I KNOW HOW MUCH WORK THAT IS FOR YOU GUYS TO HAND, BECAUSE I'M SURE THOSE PEOPLE ARE CALLING YOU ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND OH MY GOD, I THINK HE HAS DIARRHEA.
SHOULD I TAKE HIM TO THE VEG? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE JUST LIKE, IT'S THE, IT'S JUST OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
AND I, I JUST WANNA TELL YOU HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH OF THE IMPACT THAT HAS HAD IS THAT, THAT HUGE FOSTER PROGRAM AND WHAT A GREAT DOG JOB.
UM, THEN I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE, UH, OKAY, UH, THE, UH, RETURN TO OWNERS JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET THEIR DOGS BACK BECAUSE WHY? AND DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHY? I MEAN, I KNOW YOU CAN'T TELL BECAUSE THEY DON'T SHOW UP TO GET THEM, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY GUESSES ON ARE THEY NOT LOOKING, DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW TO LOOK? DO THEY REALLY NOT WANT THE DOG? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT DO WE THINK THE, WHAT ARE THE GUESSES ON WHY THOSE PEOPLE DON'T COME AND LOOK FOR THEIR DOG? AND WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
I KNOW
AND WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT THEY, THEY, THEY ACTUALLY CAME TO RECLA FOR DOG.
WELL, AND I EVEN SEE PEOPLE I LIKE, THEY'LL LOSE A DOG IN IRVING.
AND THEN THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, I LOOKED AT THEY'RE HAVING SHELTER.
AND THEN SO SOMEBODY, THEY'LL GO, WELL, YOU SHOULD LOOK AT DALLAS.
WELL, NO, NO, WE'RE NOT IN DALLAS.
AND WE'RE LIKE, WELL, PEOPLE PICK UP THE DOG, THE DOG TRAVELS.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST, ANYWAY, I JUST WONDERED IF WE HAD ANY IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE JUST LIKE NOT REALLY CARING OR, OR IS IT A LANGUAGE BARRIER OR IS IT A CULTURAL BARRIER AND THEY'RE AFRAID TO COME IN? I JUST DON'T KNOW.
SO, UM, OVERSEEING THE PET SUPPORT TEAM, BUT ALSO MY WORK IN OTHER SHELTERS, WHAT I CAN SAY IS, UM, ONE ANIMAL'S IN WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES.
RIGHT? OR THAT IDENTIFICATION NOT BEING UPDATED.
UH, MY TEAM TRACES MICROCHIPS ALL DAY, RIGHT? AND THEY HAVE NON-WORKING PHONE NUMBERS OR EMAIL ADDRESSES AREN'T ON THEM.
SO, UM, REALLY MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY USING THOSE TOOLS THAT ARE THERE.
BUT THEN OUTSIDE OF THAT, I THINK ANOTHER STRUGGLE IS THAT THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO, FOR LOST AND BOUND PROCESSES, RIGHT? I AGREE.
SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO STREAMLINE RIGHT NOW AND WORK WITH PETCO LOVE LOST.
UM, IF ANYBODY'S NOT FAMILIAR WITH THEM, UM, THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO FIND A MORE, UM, NATIONAL STANDARD OF SURFING FOR YOUR PET.
THERE'S A MILLION LOST AND FOUND FACEBOOK GROUPS.
TO YOUR POINT, I WENT TO THE IRVING SHELTER 'CAUSE I LIVE IN IRVING, NOT REALIZING MY DOG GOT BROUGHT TO DALLAS, THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS THAT WE TRANSFER BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES, BECAUSE THIS DOG REALLY LIVES IN THAT MUNICIPALITY ACCORDING TO THE MICROCHIP.
BUT WHO KNOWS THAT THEY MOVED.
UM, SO I REALLY THINK THAT THE LOST AND BOUND PROCESS FOR COMMUNITIES GENERALLY IS EXTREMELY CONFUSING.
UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE SOME OF OUR ANIMALS, UH, WE DO FIND, UM, PEOPLE ARE COMING A DAY AFTER THAT STRAY WILL EXPIRED AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT PET'S ALREADY BEEN PLACED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
UM, WE'RE CONSTANTLY COORDINATING WITH SARAH'S TEAM, UH, TO SEE IF WE COULD GET THAT PET BACK FROM THE RESCUE OR BRING IT BACK FROM FOSTER BECAUSE THE OWNERS COME IN JUST, JUST SHY OF IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT NOT NECESSARILY EXTENDING THE STRAY HOLD PERIODS, BUT TRYING TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WHEN THEY LOSE A PET, WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WHEN THEY FIND A PET.
UM, AND, AND REALLY HAVE ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DALLAS METRO AREA DIRECTING EVERYBODY TO THE SAME PLACE.
BECAUSE SOME ARE SAYING GO TO FACEBOOK, SOME ARE SAYING JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE, UM, JUST GO CHECK SHELTERS.
UM, BUT REALLY, UH, IF WE CAN GET EVERYONE FUNNELING TO THE PETCO LOVE LOSS RIGHT NOW, UH, WHICH IS WHAT OUR PET SUPPORT TEAM IS REALLY TRYING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO, UM, WE, WE REALLY ARE HOPING TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER.
AND TO SUMMER'S POINT ON THE PETCO LOVE LOSS.
SO WE, WE HAVE BEEN INVITED TO A TWO DAY CONFERENCE WITH THEM IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO IMPLEMENT THIS IS THEY'RE STARTING, THEY'RE GOING TO MAIN FOR MUNICIPALITIES AND THEY'RE STARTING WITH THE LARGEST MUNICIPAL SHELTER.
SO I THINK THEY'VE DONE SAN ANTONIO, THEY'VE DONE LOS ANGELES AND GET US THE, AND WE'RE ON BOARD TO GET US ON BOARD.
SO WE'RE ONLY DOING PETCO LOVE LOST AS OUR, AS OUR LOST AND FOUND PLATFORM.
AND THEN ONCE WE TAKE IT ON, LIKE IT HAPPENED IN LOS ANGELES AND IN SAN ANTONIO, HOPING THAT THE SUBURB SHELTERS WILL THEN FOLLOW SO THAT WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PLATFORM, UM, THERE.
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UH, GIVING US THE MEDIA COLLATERAL AND EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH WHEN, WHEN WE SWITCH OVER.UM, THE OTHER TWO THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING IS, AND THIS DOESN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHY THEY DON'T.
UM, BUT, UH, AND I DO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME SHELTER AWARENESS AND THEN I ALSO THINK THAT THERE ARE TIMES THAT THINK THAT WE'RE ALL CONNECTED TO THE SYSTEM AND YOU DON'T WANNA BE PART OF THE SYSTEM.
AND REALLY FOR THE RECORD, WE ARE NOT CONNECTED.
I MEAN, WE ARE THE CITY OF DALLAS, BUT WE'RE NOT, OUR SOFTWARE'S NOT CONNECTED TO ANY SYSTEM.
SO IF, IF YOU WANNA COME GET YOUR PET, COME GET YOUR PET.
UM, AND WE REALLY, WE MAKE IT EASY TO GET YOU REMOVE THE BARRIERS.
WE, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA SPAY SPARE HIM, BUT WE REDUCE FEES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, SO WE DON'T WANT MONEY TO BE A BARRIER BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK IS A BARRIER.
BUT, UM, WE, YOU KNOW, WHEN OFFICERS PICK UP DOGS IN THE FIELD, THEY HANG FLYERS.
WE'VE JUST ADDED PICTURES TO THOSE VOLUMES.
AND SO, AND THERE'S INCENTIVES, RIGHT? FOR RETURN FOR THE INCENT RETURNS OF THE GETS AND CENTERED BONUSES FOR DIFFERENT TIERS OF HOW MANY RTOS THEY DO OF THE DOGS THAT THEY BRING IN.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING, THE LAST THING I WANTED TO MENTION IS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT GETTING, WE'RE ORDERING COLLARS AND TAP GETTING TAGS SO THAT WHEN A PET LEAVES, HE LEAVES WITH A TAG.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY THINKS OF MICROCHIP HOW GREAT, WHICH REALLY IS GREAT, BUT NOBODY HAS A SCANNER, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TO COME TO THE SHELTER.
WHEREAS, SO YOU THINK OF YOUR, AND I, I HAVE TO GIVE, YOU KNOW, GINA FROM MICKELSON FOUNDATION CREDIT FOR THIS, BUT WHAT SHE SAID IS, YOUR TAG IS YOUR LICENSE PLATE, YOUR MICROCHIP IS YOUR BIN NUMBER.
SO, YOU KNOW, REALLY HAVING SOMETHING SO THAT, YOU KNOW, IF KAREN FINDS MY DOG DOOR, HERE'S GEORGE.
YEAH, HE HAS A CHIP, BUT WE NEVER EVEN HAVE TO GO THAT FAR.
CALL ME UP, I'M GONNA COME HERE WITH GEORGE.
BUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE CHIP ALSO IS THERE'S SO MANY COMPANIES THAT YOU SO HANG ON.
SHE, UM, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 10 SECONDS REMAINING OF YOUR TIME.
I JUST HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FOR SUMMER AND WELCOME SUMMER AND, UM, OKAY.
I, I HAVE A FRIEND WHO DOES TNR, I MEAN, AND SHE GETS UP AT FOUR IN THE MORNING AND SHE DRIVES TO DENTON OR SHE DRIVES ALL OVER.
AND I'M, IF THESE PE IF THESE PEOPLE KNEW, I THINK IT'D SHOW UP.
AND I THINK THAT, THAT THEY'RE JUST NOT NECESSARILY SEEING THE MESSAGING BECAUSE THEY'RE SO WRAPPED UP IN THEIR, AND THEIR NAME REALLY IS DALLAS CATLAN, AS YOU SAID.
I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY THE NAME OF THE GROUP,
UM, SO WE'RE NOT DISPARAGING THEM, BUT, UM, I MEAN, I CAN GIVE YOU SOME OF THE, HER, I, I MEAN, I'LL GIVE YOU HER INFORMATION 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT SHE IS LIKE A HUGE ADVOCATE AND, UM, AND WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS.
AND SO THAT, I THINK THAT'S MAY REAL, MAYBE THIS REALLY SUPER TARGETED MARKETING TO THOSE, THOSE PEOPLE THAT DO IT ALL THE TIME WOULD BE, WOULD BE FABULOUS.
AND ONE MORE THING IS THAT, UM, STEPHANIE WAS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT TAKE, UH, REALLY NICE PICTURES AND VIDEOS.
SHE ALSO TAKES REALLY NICE PICTURES AND VIDEOS THAT ACTUALLY GET A LOT OF DOGS ADOPTED.
SO, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PICTURES AND VIDEOS ARE KEY AND UM, THAT'S, THAT REALLY, REALLY MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
UM, COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ, I WILL START YOUR TIME IF YOU'RE READY.
UM, MOST OF THE COMMENTS IS EVERYBODY'S GONE OVER WELCOME SUMMER AND, UM, BACK TO, I JUST HAD A THING FOR SARAH ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
UM, WHEN YOU SAY THAT WE HAVE EVENTS, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE HAVE THREE EVENTS OVER THE WEEKEND, IS THERE A WAY TO SHARE THAT WITH US SO THAT WE CAN PUT IT ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA? I DO GET, UH, SOME OF THE, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA FROM FACEBOOK ABOUT DAS ADOPTING DOGS, AND I TRY TO SHARE THAT WHEN I RECEIVE IT.
BUT IF WE COULD SHARE THAT, I THINK THAT'S A MORE EXPOSURE FOR OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND THEN, UM, THE ONLY OTHER THING WAS TO, UH, PAUL RAMON WAS, UH, HOW MANY PEOPLE, UH, HOW MANY OFFICERS RECEIVED BADGE OR HOW MANY BADGES DID OFFICERS RECEIVE? BADGES IS BACK IN OCTOBER.
OOH, I WANNA SAY IT, IT WAS, IT WAS A DOUBLE DIGIT NUMBER.
BECAUSE WE HAD OFFICERS THAT RECEIVED PROMOTIONAL BADGES TOO.
SO, UH, I, I KNOW AT ONE POINT WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, OUR VACANCY RATE WAS AT 40%.
40% WE'RE, WE'RE IN THE REMOTE TEAM.
SO, AND THEN IN THE ASSOS WE'RE IN
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BELOW SINGLE PAGES.SO IT'S BEEN A MAJOR IMPACT, UH, HAVING THE ADDITIONAL INCENTIVES FOR THE HIRING, UH, WHICH IS A, IS A THOUSAND DOLLARS BONUS ONCE THEY COMPLETED SIX MONTH AND ALL THE TRAINING ASPECTS.
AND IT'S A THOUSAND DOLLARS AFTER THE ANNUAL PERIOD HAS PASSED.
UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE RETURN TO HOME, UH, INCENTIVES EVERY QUARTER FOR, UH, IT'S TIERED.
ONCE 15 TO 19% IS A HUNDRED DOLLARS, UH, 20% NUMBER IS $200.
SO THERE'S ADDITIONAL AVENUES FOR, FOR MONIES TO INCENTIVIZE THOSE FOLKS TO STAY.
AND GRANTED, WITH ANY ACADEMY, I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR 21 YEARS AND 21 YEARS OF ACADEMIES.
UH, YOU'LL HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT WORK WITH YOU, RIGHT.
UH, BUT YOU HAVE THAT ATTRITION THAT KEEPS COMING THROUGH.
BUT YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO MAINTAIN AND STAY AT, AT, AT A DECENT NUMBER.
AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOW STARTING TO GET OUT INTO THE FIELD BECAUSE IT TAKES SIX MONTHS TO ACTUALLY FINISH THAT PROCESS.
AND THEN YOU SAID THAT WE HAD ANOTHER GROUP COMING IN IN MARCH.
SO PAUL, I'M GONNA STOP YOU BEFORE YOU ANSWER.
SO IF YOU DO IT IN THIS FORMAT, IT RUNS DOWN THE TIME.
SO I JUST WANNA, WE'RE GONNA PAUSE IT, BUT GET THE QUESTIONS OUT FIRST AND THEN WE'LL GET THE ANSWERS.
AND THEN YOU SAID WE HAD ANOTHER GROUP IN MARCH, IS THAT RIGHT? YES.
WE HAVE ANOTHER GROUP THAT'S CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH TRAINING.
UH, WE JUST AT ONBOARDED SIX MORE THAT ARE GOING THROUGH TRAINING AND HOPEFULLY THROUGH BY MARCH WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER BATCH CEREMONY.
I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT PAULAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB ADDRESSING AND CHANGING THE CULTURE IN OUR FIELD DEPARTMENT, CREATING A CAN-DO OUT OF LIKE, THERE'S BEEN DRASTIC, I'D LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO PAUL THAT OUT.
IT'S, IT'S REALLY A TEAM EFFORT.
THE TEAM HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CHANGING AGGRESSIVE DOGS.
OUR, OUR, OUR ABILITY TO ADDRESS THOSE IN A TIMELY MANNER HAS DECREASED FROM A THREE DAYS TO 25 DAYS FROM THE TIME OF INVESTIGATION, THE TIME OF DEALING THE DOGS.
SO IT'S REALLY THE TEAM THAT THEY'VE STEPPED UP AND STEPPED OUT.
AND BEFORE WE ACTUALLY YIELD, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.
UM, JUST THANK YOU AND THANK YOUR TEAM AND PLEASE LET THEM KNOW THAT WE ARE, UH, VERY HAPPY TO NOTE THESE NUMBERS AND THE NEW TEAMS COMING THROUGH YOUR OFFICERS.
ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONER SANDERS, WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
UM, I DO HAVE A BUNCH OF LIKE REALLY LITTLE LIKE, UH, PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS I GUESS.
BUT THE FIRST THING I WANNA SAY IS, AGAIN, KIND OF TO ECHO EVERYTHING EVERYBODY ELSE HAS SAID IS THANK YOU TO MELISSA, UH, MARY AND SARAH PAUL AND I, NICE TO MEET YOU SUMMER
UM, I'VE REALLY NOTICED, UM, A LOT OF PROGRESS, UM, IN JUST THE NUMBERS.
I KNOW THAT MAYBE NOT IN THESE THE NATION NUMBERS, BUT A LOT OF THE OTHER NUMBERS AND JUST AN ATTITUDE AND I JUST FEEL LIKE A SENSE OF OPTIMISM MOVING FORWARD.
SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S THANKS TO ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, AND IN TERMS OF THE COMMUNITY CATS TOO, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK, OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY'S ALSO SAID, UM, THANKS TO DEBBIE WHO CAME AND SPOKE, BUT ALSO TO ALL OF THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE LAST MAYBE THREE OR FOUR MEETINGS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE.
BECAUSE BECAUSE OF THEM, I'M NOT THE ONLY, I'M NOT IN MY LITTLE ECHO CHAMBER TALKING ABOUT COMMUNITY CATS ANYMORE.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE HAS MENTIONED THEM.
SO, AND THAT'S THANKS TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BROUGHT THAT ISSUE UP, UM, FROM THE PUBLIC.
SO I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMUNITY CATS EXCEPT FOR THAT.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF WE COULD GET SOME DATA FROM SNN ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY'RE TURNING AWAY AND WHY THEY THINK PEOPLE AREN'T SHOWING UP.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF MAYBE JORDAN CAN COME AT SOME POINT TO ONE OF THESE MEETINGS AND, AND KINDA SHARE WITH US SOME OF THAT DATA BECAUSE, UM, I, I DON'T, THERE MUST BE SOME REASON THAT THE COMMUNITY CAT COMMUN COMMUNITY IS NOT FAVORING THEIR, UM, SERVICES ANY LONGER.
AND MANY OF THEM ARE USING TCAP AND OTHER ONES INSTEAD.
SO I'D LIKE TO MAYBE START A DIALOGUE, MAYBE SUMMER CAN HELP, UH, WHY THAT IS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER OPTION AT THE MOMENT AND UNTIL WE DO, UM, WE WANNA GET FULL, UM, AC HAVE FULL ACCESS AND USAGE OF THOSE, THOSE, UM, THAT MONEY AND THE, THE RESOURCES.
SO MOVING ON
I SAID I WAS GONNA TALK, BUT NO.
SO, UM, I'M GONNA, I JUST HAVE SOME REALLY QUICK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UPDATE.
UM, ON PAGE FIVE, RETURN TO OWNER, UM, NUMBERS, AND YOU'VE MENTIONED THIS ALREADY, MELISSA, BUT UM, THOSE ANIMALS ARE BEING SPAYED NEUTERED BEFORE THE RETURN TO OWNER AND AT WHAT COST TO THE CITY AND THEN WHAT COST TO THE OWNER.
MAYBE, UH, YOU CAN GIVE US SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.
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UM, PAGE 15, I WAS JUST WONDERING, THIS HAS TO DO WITH PAUL, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTERNAL PROACTIVE AND FOLLOW UP CALLS? THERE'S SOME NUMBERS THAT ARE IN THERE.UM, I MEAN IT'S KIND OF, UM, MAYBE MAKES A LITTLE BIT OF SENSE, BUT REALLY THE EXTERNAL AND PROACTIVE, WHAT MAKES IT PROACTIVE? HOW DO YOU MOST DETERMINE WHEN YOU'RE PROACTIVE ON FIELD CALLS? AND THEN THE PAGE 16, THE LOWER HEARTWORM UM, TREATMENT.
IS THIS BECAUSE HEARTWORM, UM, POSITIVE ANIMALS ARE BEING EUTHANIZED AT A GREATER RATE? DOES THAT HAVE FACTORED IN IT OR IS IT LESS HEARTWORM? WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS WITH THAT? AND THEN ALSO, UM, CAN WE GET AN UPDATE ON THE CITY SHELTER BOND TASK FORCE ISSUES? UM, AND THAT'S IT.
JUST THANKS TO EVERYBODY, THANKS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS, THANKS TO STEPHANIE WHO'S NOW ON OUR, UM, COMMITTEE WHO ALSO DOES A FANTASTIC JOB WITH, UM, ALL OF HER VIDEOS.
THAT'S IT FOR ME, BELIEVE OR NOT STILL TIME FOR ME.
UM, WELL MAYBE LATER, BUT
AND THAT I DON'T HAVE, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT, AT OUR FEE STUDY AND IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS DOES FEE STUDIES, SO I'D HAVE TO SEE IF WE HAVE, BUT WE'RE AWARE OF THE INTERNAL COST.
I'M NOT SURE OF AN INTERNAL COST.
UM, AND, BUT I DO THINK THAT, THAT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE MEASURED.
SO I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT ONE.
WE DON'T, SO THE CHARGE I THINK IS SUPPOSED TO BE $40 FOR A RETURN TO, BUT WE'LL WAIVE THE THREE TO GET THE DOG HOME.
BUT HE DOES LEAVE, STAY N VACCINATED, MICROCHIPPED, ALL OF THE THINGS.
UH, AND THEN HEARTWORM, I, AND THIS IS JUST A GUESS, I'M GUESSING WHEN WE ARE EITHER RESCUES ARE PULLING APART FROM, AND THEY'RE WANTING TO TREAT THEIR ON THEIR OWN.
THEY'RE WANTING TO DO THE OLD STYLE SLOW STUFF AND OR JUST WANTING TO SEE THEIR OWN DOCTOR.
SO THEY, I THINK THAT'S A PART OF IT ALSO, LIKE WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT EUTHANASIA FOOD BASE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT ANIMALS THAT AREN'T HEALTHY.
AND SO THAT MIGHT BE PART OF IT TOO.
UM, ON THE BOND, WE'VE NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE BOND AND UM, SO WE ARE NOT GIVING UP, WE ARE TALKING, I MEAN, ON THE BONDS RIGHT.
NEXT TIME YOU REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THAT FUNDING, HAVE THAT DESIGN.
SO LIKE I SAID, IT REALLY WILL TAKE US TO 2050 AND BEYOND.
SO THAT PLAN WILL WORK FOR THE NEXT BOND CYCLE.
AND, AND THIS TIME WE'LL BE AHEAD OF THE GAME.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE MEETING WITH FACILITIES TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO INTERNALLY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN OUR EXISTING FACILITY.
AND TO EXPLAIN THE EXTERNAL PROACTIVE AND FOLLOW UP.
IT, IT'S WITH ANY CALL FOR SERVICE.
COMING INTO THREE ONE, AS OUR OFFICERS RESPOND, THEY MAY BE OUT IN THE FIELD AND THEY SEE SOMETHING ELSE THAT THEY NEED TO ADDRESS.
AND THAT WOULD BE THE PROACTIVE ASPECT.
THEY WOULD PICK UP THAT CASE PROACTIVELY WITHOUT HAVING TO GET A CALL TO RESPOND TO.
AND THEN THE FOLLOW UPS WOULD BE IF THEY ACTUALLY WENT OUT TO A LOCATION, LIKE DURING THE WINTER WEATHER MM-HMM.
AND WE ISSUED A NOTICE, A VIOLATION FOR SHELTERING OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, WE WOULD DO A FOLLOW UP.
DO YOU FOLLOW UP ON THE, UM, SPAY NEUTER, UM, THINGS THAT KIND OF A SAFETY ISSUE FOR THE FIELD OFFICERS? I, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO THAT ONE, BUT I, I BELIEVE IF WE, IF WE, IF WE'VE ISSUED A NOTICE MM-HMM.
'CAUSE THEN IF THEY DIDN'T COMPLY, WE WOULD ISSUE
THERE'S NO NEED FOR FOLLOW UP 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA GO THROUGH IS THE SAFE ISSUE.
UM, COMMISSIONER SANDERS, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS REMAINING UNLESS YOU'D LIKE TO YIELD.
COMMISSIONER ED, GO AHEAD AND LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
MARY IS STILL WEARING ABSOLUTELY.
SARAH IS STILL WEARING HER SHIRT.
SHE'S GOT HER GLOVES ON AND I'M LOOKING FOR MINE.
THAT'S THE HEAT ON NEXT TIME, RIGHT? YEAH, I THINK, UH, I KNOW IT'S
AND I'M JUST LIKE, I TELL YOU WHY
AND THEN TWO, IF WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF QUESTIONS, ARE WE ABLE TO JUST Q AND A BACK AND
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FORTH, BUT THAT WE STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ROUND PROCESS.BUT WITHIN MY ALLOTTED TIME BY YOU CAN, BUT IT RUNS DOWN YOUR TIME.
ASKING IT ALL WILL ALLOW THEM TO ANSWER WITHOUT CUTTING INTO YOUR TIME.
AND THEN WE CAN STILL GO TO SECOND ROUNDS.
SO IT'S UP TO YOU SAY, I JUST DON'T SEE US GOING THE SECOND ROUND, SO I'M GONNA TRY TO WRAP IT UP.
GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME NOW.
I'M GONNA START RIGHT TIME NOW.
FIRST STARTERS, MELISSA, SARAH, MARY PAUL, WELCOME.
I HAD POMPOMS, I WOULD
LIKE JUST GAME CHANGING STUFF HAPPENING HERE.
LIKE IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS WAS A STRATEGIC SHIFT THAT GOT YOU TO THIS POINT.
'CAUSE NUMBERS LIKE THIS DON'T JUST HAPPEN.
RIGHT? LIKE THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT CHANGED TO, TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
SO BRAVO, UM, THAT SUCH A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN FOSTERS.
I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK THE BIGGEST FACTOR WAS AND WHY THAT HAS CHANGED SO MUCH IN 2023.
UM, AND JUST BEING ABLE TO SEE SOME DATA ON HOW LONG EACH DOG IS FOSTERED, HOW OLD THEY ARE, AND HOW MANY ARE FOSTER FAILS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SORRY, ONE NOTE I HAD WAS IF WE COULD JUST HAVE PAGE NUMBERS ON ALL OF THESE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, AND THEN ON PAGE EIGHT, THE, THE INCREASE IN DOGS AND CATS FOR TO RESCUE IS FANTASTIC.
THAT'S UTILIZING YOUR NETWORK AND NOT TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING BY YOURSELF, UM, WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE DATA ON AGE BREED, HOW LONG THEY WERE AT DAS.
JUST SOME INFORMATION ON WHAT EXACTLY THAT TRANSITION IS LIKE.
UM, PAGE 11, THE DECREASE IN EUTHANASIA FOR DOGS.
UM, LOVE THE FACT THAT THERE'S TELEMEDICINE FOR FOSTER PARENTS, BY THE WAY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A THING.
I WOULD LOVE, UM, COMMISSIONER SACKER POINTED OUT JUST SOME MORE DATA, KIND OF THE ROI THERE AND I AGREE WITH HIM.
UM, JUST UNDERSTANDING HOW THEY'RE HELPING WITH FOSTERS AND ADOPTIONS THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE IN SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, EMPIRICAL VALUE.
UM, CURIOUS WHAT OUR STATUS IS WITH SPCA WITH NEW LEADERSHIP THERE.
UM, IF THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WILL POTENTIALLY CHANGE THINGS.
WE SUPER EXCITED, WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THE CEO RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S A NEW, IT'S A NEW DAY.
AND SOME NEW OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
UM, THE ON
I WAS CURIOUS IF THERE COULD BE ANY KIND OF A HEAT MAP FOR UNSHELTERED DOGS.
SO I KNOW THAT'S KIND OF A WEIRD ASK, BUT IS THERE ANY WAY FOR US TO HAVE A REALLY KIND OF GRANULAR IDEA OF WHERE THE DOGS ARE WITH, YOU KNOW, THAT MAY BE A CHALLENGE BECAUSE THE TRANSIT YEAH.
SO YOU REALLY WOULDN'T GET A, AN ACCURATE DEPICTION WOULD BE, IT COULD BE THE SAME DOG MOVING OVER, BUT WE COULD REACH OUT TO OH OPPOSITE HOMELESS SOLUTION AND SEE IF THEY, BECAUSE I'M SURE THAT THEY HAVE, ARE WORKING WITH DATA ANALYTICS THROUGH THE CITY TOO.
I'M JUST CURIOUS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU ALL PROVIDE FOOD, UM, FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT.
BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME KIND OF RESOURCES THAT CAN BE SET UP AROUND WHERE WE TEND TO SEE AN INCREASE IN THE HOMELESS POPULATION.
UM, OR FOR THOSE THAT HAVE DOGS SO THAT WE'RE, WE'RE NOT SEEING, YOU KNOW, ANY ISSUES WITH DOGS NOT BEING FED BECAUSE THE OWNERS AREN'T ABLE TO AFFORD THAT FOOD.
UM, AND THEN ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO AS A, AS A COMMISSION TO SHOW APPRECIATION TO YOUR, UM, EMPLOYEES AND ASOS, UH, I WOULD LOVE SOME IDEAS ON THAT.
UM, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN SUCH A BIG WIN.
2023 WAS SUCH A BIG YEAR OF BIG WINS.
LIKE I GET THAT EVERY WIN MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED, BUT YOU HAVE SOME PRETTY BIG WINS.
SO EVEN IF THAT MEANS LIKE COMMISSIONERS, YOU KNOW, CELEBRATE THEM WITH A A L OR SOMETHING.
YOU'VE HAD A REDUCTION, UM, OF ANIMALS.
YOU STILL HAVE A TON OF AM ANIMALS COMING, A TON OF DOGS COMING IN, BUT YOU'RE STILL REDUCING THE RATE OF EUTHANASIA FOR SPACE.
UM, YOU'RE STILL YOUR HUGE INCREASE IN, IN FOSTERS.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO THE ORGANIZATION AS A WHOLE.
SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO, I'D LOVE TO TO TALK ABOUT THAT FURTHER.
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UM, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE YOUR NEXT CEREMONY IN MARCH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BE PART OF OR HELP OR CONTRIBUTE TO IN ANY WAY.EVEN IF IT'S HANDWRITTEN CARDS, LIKE ANYTHING.
I'D LOVE FOR SOME FEEDBACK ON THAT.
AND THEN MY LAST PIECE, UM, IS MORE FOCUSED ON MEDIA AND COMMS. UM, WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE VISA FOR A WHILE.
WHAT IS THE TIMELINE FOR DELIVERY ON THAT STRATEGIC PLAN? SPRINT? WE'RE LOOKING, WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE IT COMPLETE BY SPRING.
IT, IT'S, WHAT'S MADE IT CHALLENGING IS BECAUSE IT'S PUTTING A LOT OF, IN THE FIRES ARE HAPPENING AND HAVING LIKE KNOWING WEEKS, THEY HAVE TO PULL AWAY FROM THE FIRE.
THEY HAVE TO PULL AWAY FROM THE HAMSTER WHEEL AND SPEND THESE HOURS WORKING ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
I MEAN, YOU'RE IN, YOU'RE IN IT AND THEN YOU'RE TRYING TO, YOU'RE, YOU LIVE IN A STATE OF REACTIVE AND THEN YOU'RE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE AND IT'S HARD AND I GET IT.
BUT, UM, I THINK HAVING THAT STRATEGIC PLAN WILL BE HUGE.
COMMISSIONER SIDE, YOU'RE GONNA HATE ME.
BUT, SO WE DO HAVE TIME LEFT THE HOUR.
WE NEED TO GO TO CHAIR BOSKY AFTER STAFF ANSWERS 'CAUSE SHE DIDN'T GET HER FIVE MINUTES.
BUT THEN AFTER THAT, IF WE WANNA MAKE A MOTION FOR SOME OPEN DISCUSSION, WE CAN HAVE THAT WITH THE REMAINING ARE YOU'VE GOT LIKE TWO MINUTES LEFT.
I MAKE A MOTION THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER ASIAH GETS TO FINISH RIGHT NOW.
YOU HAVE TO JULY THE CORRECT ORDER.
I HOPE I'M HALF AS GOOD AT MY JOB AS YOU PUT THAT BUNCH OF CARROTS,
SO LET'S, FOR ANY CONFUSION, WE'RE GONNA GO WITH STAFF ADDRESSING COMMISSIONER S'S QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO CHAIR THE BOX PLEASE.
SO I NEED A LIST OF THE LIKE MORE GRANULAR DATA FOR FOSTER RESCUE AND VOLUNTEERS.
AS FOR WHY I THINK THE FOSTER PROGRAM HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL IN GROWING, UM, IT ATTRIBUTED TO TWO THINGS.
ONE, WE'VE REMOVED A TON OF BARRIERS TO BECOMING FOSTER.
THE PROCESS USED TO BE A LITTLE BIT TRICKY TO MOVE THROUGH.
WE SLOWED IT DOWN BY BEING REALLY RIGID.
AND, UM, SO WE'VE REMOVED A LOT OF THE BARRIERS.
YOU CAN JUST WALK IN AND FOSTER A DOG TODAY.
UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO APPLY ONLINE.
HAVE A PHONE CALL, SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT.
UM, AND THEN THE SECOND PIECE IS I THINK COMMUNICATION REALLY CONSISTENTLY RAMPING UP THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNICATION ABOUT FOSTERING, NOT JUST TELLING PEOPLE ONCE A WEEK THAT THEY CAN FOSTER, BUT WE POST ABOUT IT EVERY SINGLE DAY.
ALL OF OUR ADOPTION MESSAGING, I INCLUDES MESSAGING ABOUT FOSTERING.
SO IF YOU CAN ADOPT, CONSIDER FOSTERING AND NOT JUST CONSIDER FOSTERING THROUGH ADOPTION, CONSIDER FOSTERING FOR THREE DAYS.
UM, AND SO I THINK THAT WE REALLY ARE HOOKING PEOPLE THAT PREVIOUSLY FELT LIKE IT WAS A REALLY DAUNTING THING TO TAKE ON.
AND WE'RE SHOWING THEM HOW IT CAN FIT IN THEIR LIVES.
SO I ATTRIBUTE IT A A LOT TO THOSE TWO THINGS.
AND I WERE TO THROW IN A THIRD.
I, I THINK WE DO HAVE A REALLY INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY OF AMBASSADORS.
UM, WHO STEPHANIE IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM WHO ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB AT GETTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT MONITORING.
STEPHANIE HAS APPEARED FOR US IN LIKE MEDIA INTERVIEWS.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER FOSTERS THAT WILL ALSO DO INTERVIEWS TO TALK ABOUT FOSTERING.
UM, THEY MAKE BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS AND THEY REALLY GET THE WORD OUT THERE AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN I THINK THAT WAS IT.
WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? WELL, FOR, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS.
UH, ANY SUPPORT THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE TO, TO
CONVEYING IT TO YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE MEMBER DEPARTMENT IS REALLY NEEDED.
WHEN, AND MELISSA BEFORE AND MARY ASKING FOR SOMETHING, THEY KNOW WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED MAKES IT A LOT EASIER TO ASK.
BECAUSE WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, MY THOUGHT WAS WE NEED TO FILL THE VACANCIES, ANALYZE, AND THEN GO ASK FOR MORE STAFF.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH WHAT WE'VE GOT.
AND KNOWING WHAT WE CAN DO MORE WITH WHAT WE HAVE ADDED IS YOUR SUPPORT IN THAT PROCESS IS GONNA BE GREAT FOR YOU.
AND IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE BAD CEREMONY, IF ONE PERSON WANTS TO ATTEND A REPRESENTED GROUP, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
AND WE'LL WORK ON, I WHAT I'M HEARING IS WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB.
LET JILLIAN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU ALL, ALL OF THE EVENTS, THE BEST, LIKE ALL OF THE THINGS AND YOU CAN SHARE WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
YOU HAVE IT FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, WHATEVER.
AND THEN ALSO OUR STAFF DOES LOVE
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FOOD.JILLIAN'S GONNA YELL AT ME 'CAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE IT BEFORE YOUR FACE, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST THINKING OF, UM, WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY, IT'S IN THE BUDGET BOOK.
I, IT'S APPROXIMATELY 194, BUT GIVE OR TAKE.
THEY'RE NOT I'M FOOD FIRST STAFF.
I GENERALLY AIM TO FEED A HUNDRED PEOPLE.
THAT LITERALLY THAT USUALLY IT'S GONNA LEAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD LEFTOVER, BUT MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS FED.
AND THEN WE HAVE, THAT'S OUR FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE 10 STAFF TOO.
UM, CHAIR VOKI, A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU BEFORE WE START.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSIONERS.
UM, I MEAN, CAN I DO THAT IN CLOSING REMARKS AND NOT HAVE MY TIME DINGED? OR CAN I TAKE THAT SOME OF MY TIME FOR, UM, WHEN WE DID THE ANNUAL REPORT? 'CAUSE I CAN TIE IT BACK TO THAT.
IT WILL BE LESS THAN THREE MINUTES.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO IT AS SEPARATE FROM YOUR ROUND.
YOU COULD EITHER, CAN I, CAN I DO IT RIGHT NOW AND THEN START MY ROUND
AND THEN CAN I DO IT AT THE END? YES.
UM, I'M GONNA BE QUICK, VERY, VERY, VERY QUICK.
BRAVO TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
UM, I HAVE CLOSING REMARKS ON, BUT I'LL WAIT ON THAT.
UM, VOLUNTEERS, YOU ARE KILLING IT.
I REALLY AM INTERESTED IN HOW MANY DOGS ARE BEING ADOPTED BECAUSE WHAT I SEE ARE TWO THEMES HERE TODAY.
WE CONTINUE TO HAVE OVER 400 DOGS IN THE SHELTER AND THAT HAS NOT CHANGED.
AT A POINT WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE APPROACHING.
ARE YOU TAKING MY TIME?
LIKE THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT A LOT OF SHELTERS RIGHT NOW.
BUT IF WE CAN GET THOSE DOGS ADOPTED AND WE, AND WE SEE THOSE RESULTS, THEN THOSE ARE TOTALLY WORTH IT.
I'VE BEEN TO SO MANY DIFFERENT ADOPTION EVENTS AT PET, PET SUPPLIES.
PLUS I FEEL FOR THESE RESCUES, IT'S SO MUCH WORK PULLING THE DOGS IN, HAVING THEM THERE, RETURNING THEM, THAT'S WORK ON WEEKENDS AS WELL.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE, UM, SMART HOURS.
UM, ALSO, CAN WE GO TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT ARE 18? UM, MY SON IS IN HIGH SCHOOL NOW.
THEY NEED SERVICE HOURS WHEN THEY'RE 18.
AND IF YOU HAVE A ONE PAGER ON THIS IS WHAT IT IS TO VOLUNTEER.
I KNOW THAT WE CAN GET KIDS DOWN.
UM, WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW PEOPLE, UM, KIDS THAT ARE VOLUNTEERING WITH US AS, UM, EXCUSE ME, WHAT ARE THEY CALLED? JUNIOR ADVOCATES.
I'D LOVE TO GET THEM DOWN THERE.
SO THEY NEED TO COME DOWN HUMANE EDUCATION.
MAYBE SOME OF THOSE VOLUNTEERS, THOSE 500 AMAZING VOLUNTEERS LIKE COMMISSIONER SIDE SAID IS SUCH A, I MEAN YOU GUYS ARE KILLING IT, BUT MAYBE WE COULD TAKE SOME OF THOSE.
MAYBE THEY'RE RETIRED TEACHERS.
AND WE HAVE A CURRICULUM ONLINE.
UM, IT IS MADE IS PAINT BY NUMBERS.
IT IS FREE AND THE FIRST ONE IS, UM, IT'S RAINING CATS AND CATS.
AND IT TALKS ABOUT MULTIPLICATION AND HOW IMPORTANT SPAY NEUTER IS.
SO WE HAVE THE CURRICULUM, IT'S THERE.
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.
SO IF MAYBE SOME OF THOSE VOLUNTEERS ARE LIKE, I'LL GO TO FIVE DAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, SCHOOLS WANT THIS.
THEY, THEY WANT, UM, SO ANYWAYS, JUST MAYBE ALLOCATING DIFFERENT VOLUNTEER HOURS.
IF, IF IT INVOLVES, UM, TEXAS FAN LEGISLATION NETWORK.
I'M GONNA GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
UM, I KNOW THAT YOU SAID YOU HAD A HEART TEAM AGAIN, PAUL, LIKE EVERYTHING YOU SAID, I WAS JUST EATING IT UP.
YOU ARE DOING SUCH A FANTASTIC JOB.
I'M GIVING YOU A HUGE HUG AT THE END OF THIS
DO WE NEED A TEAM FOR COC FIGHTING? I KNOW YOU KEEP CALLING IT BIRDS, BUT SOMETIMES THAT CONFUSES ME.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COX BREWSTERS, RIGHT? UM, SO 440 COX THAT COME IN, YOU SAID, I MEAN, WE'RE JUST GONNA SEE THE GROWTH OF THIS.
IF I CAN JUST SAY FOR THE RECORD, HOUSE BILL 1750 IS NOW PROPPING UP C**K FIGHTING, WHICH IS ILLEGAL IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND THEN OF COURSE IT FALLS ON YOU ALL, WHICH IS 100% UNFAIR.
BUT YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT, ARE WE GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY GRANTS OUT THERE, UM, THAT YOU CAN GET MONEY TO BUILD UP THOSE TEAMS AND RESOURCES.
UM, JUST TO FOOD FOR THOUGHT, DO WE HAVE A ONE PAGER ON ANIMAL CRUELTY VERSUS NEGLECT? I GET THIS QUESTION ALL THE TIME.
JILLIAN, IF YOU CAN SHARE THAT WITH US, BECAUSE I THINK, UM, I MEAN, YOU GUYS ANSWERED 400 AND SOME CALLS, UNBELIEVABLE.
BUT I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONFUSED STILL AS TO WHAT IS NEGLECT THAT CAN TURN INTO ANIMAL CRUELTY.
AND THEN WHAT IS TRUE ON ANIMAL CRUELTY, UM, IN THAT,
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UM, AMAZING TICKETING SYSTEM.I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT NONE OF THOSE ARE ANIMAL CRUELTY CALLS THAT YOU'RE LIKE DISMISSING THE CITATIONS OR WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
ON THE LOST AND FOUND POINT, UM, THAT IS A GREAT, WHY AREN'T THEY COMING AND PICKING UP THE DOGS? UH, THERE'S A WOMAN NAMED CRYSTAL HAYES AND SHE'S REACHED OUT TO ME.
SHE HAS LOST AND FOUND SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WE LABEL 'EM AT DAS.
WHO DOES SHE REACH OUT TO? SUMMER.
'CAUSE SOMETIMES IT'S JUST LABELING DOGS, RIGHT? LIKE, HEY, HAVE YOU SEEN REX? WELL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE, THE DOG CAN'T TELL US HIS NAME RIGHT.
TAKING SHOWER, BUT SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED, LIKE YOU SAID, THEY DIDN'T KNOW TO CALL DAS.
STILL PEOPLE THINK THAT THE S SPCAS IS THE GOVERNMENT SHELTER.
SO THERE'S JUST AGAIN, BUT YOU GUYS ARE KILLING IT.
YOU, YOU'RE, YOU'RE ONE PAGERS.
I JUST CANNOT TELL YOU HOW HELPFUL THOSE ARE BECAUSE THEN WE TAKE THOSE BACK TO OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
PEOPLE THAT ASK US QUESTIONS INDIVIDUALLY AND SO FORTH.
ARE YOU, ARE YOU TAKING AWAY MY TIME? I FEEL LIKE IT'S A NEXT STEP.
I'LL TALK ABOUT THE RFP WHEN I ADDRESS THE COMMISSIONERS, BUT THE COMMUNITY CAT ONE PAGER.
UH, COMMISSIONER SAXON BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT.
JUST LET ME FINISH MY SENTENCE.
I THINK BONNIE HILL AND I WENT AND MET WITH MELISSA AND MARY AND SUMMER AND COULD NOT AGREE MORE.
WE NEED SOMETHING OUT THERE TO SHOW PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THE RESOURCES.
UM, AND THEN I'M GONNA ASK FOR A COUPLE MORE MINUTES LATER.
WE'LL LET STAFF GO AHEAD AND ADDRESS.
AND THEN FROM THERE, THE MOST ORGANIZED WAY TO DO IT, DON'T FEEL ME, BUT WE'RE GONNA GO BASED OFF OF PEOPLE'S YIELDED TIME REMAINING, BUT WE WILL ALLOW THAT TO BE AN OPEN DISCUSSION.
BUT I JUST WANNA LET EVERYBODY KNOW IT IS 1124, SO WE ARE GOT IT.
HAVE STAFF ANSWER IF YOU HAVE A BOSS WHO'S QUESTIONS NEXT.
SO I CAN DEFINITELY GET YOU A ONE PAGER ON VOLUNTEERING.
YOU CAN VOLUNTEER AS YOUNG AS THE AGE OF FIVE WITH A PARENT PRESENT AT THE AGE OF 16.
YOU CAN START VOLUNTEERING ALONE WITH NO PARENT PRESENT.
UM, PARENT DOES HAVE TO COME TO THE VERY FIRST ORIENTATION TO SIGN PAPERWORK, UM, THAT THEN THE, THE STUDENT COULD COME BY THEMSELVES AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, 18 YEARS OLD CAN SIGN UP AND DO THE WHOLE PROCESS ALONE.
UM, AND WE WOULD LOVE TO GET MORE STUDENTS INVOLVED.
I ALSO LOVE THE IDEA OF STARTING, UM, A VOLUNTEER POSITION SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO HUMAN EDUCATION.
SO I WILL GET WITH OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR ABOUT ROLLING THAT OUT THIS YEAR.
UM, COMMISSIONER HERE,
UM, AND THEN, UH, ONCE AGAIN, I, I DID ALREADY HAVE A NOTE ABOUT GETTING THE NUMBER OF DOGS ADOPTED EVIDENCE, UM, THAT VOLUNTEER NUMBER CORRECT FOR Y'ALL AND THE GIRL CREW, UH, NEGLECT THAT COULD ULTIMATELY TURN IN THE GROUP TOGETHER.
WE COULD CREATE A ONE PICTURE FOR THAT.
AND THEN AS FAR AS THE, UH, CAP PROJECT, THOSE INDIVIDUAL CITATIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ARE LISTED IN THERE WITH THIS SPECIFIC CODE.
AND IT WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CRUELTY, CAR FIGHTING TEAM, ANYTHING.
WE WOULD ALWAYS BE WELCOME TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO TAKE AWAY FROM OUR CURRENT RESOURCES TO, UH, THOSE
UH, AT ONE POINT WE HAD 2,700 BIRDS AT ONE TIME.
UH, AT ONE POINT WE HAD, UH, OVER 500.
UM, AND I DON'T SEE IT STOPPING.
THE LEGISLATION HAS GONE THROUGH, UH, PD STILL HAS AN AVENUE TO ADDRESS LEGISLATION.
THESE ARE, THESE ARE BIRDS THAT ARE DUBBED AND THEY'RE THEY'RE OUTFITTED TO BE.
THEY'RE NOT JUST, THEY'RE NOT PARENTS.
THERE'S NO PARENTS OR PARACHUTES.
I JUST, WHEN YOU SAID 400 BIRDS, I THOUGHT IT WAS A SEIZURE OF COCKATOO.
YOU KNOW, SOME BIRDS, BECAUSE THERE, THERE ARE PENS THERE ARE MORE ON.
UM, I'M GONNA MOVE TO OUR ONLINE COMMISSIONERS.
COMMISSIONER SHRUB, YOU STILL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 13 SECONDS.
UH, COMMISSIONER HILL, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? I DO.
I HAVE JUST, UM, ONE REALLY QUICK ONE.
I WANTED TO THANK COMMISSIONER, UM, HANSSEN FOR BRINGING UP THE LIST OF FERAL CAT, UM, TRAPPERS.
AGAIN, WE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT THAT AT THE LAST MEETING, THAT WE SHOULD BE EMAILING THOSE PEOPLE DIRECTLY.
SO IF YOU GUYS NEED HELP GETTING THOSE EMAIL
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ADDRESSES, I'M SURE THAT THERE'S PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION WHO WOULD BE HAPPY TO GET TOGETHER THAT LIST FOR YOU.UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, IS I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH COMMISSIONER MENTIONED IT.
UM, BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE THERE IS A TASK FORCE ON THE COMMISSION FOR TNR OR KAT.
AND IF THERE IS, I'D LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT.
I BELIEVE THAT PHRASE WAS USED TO REFERENCE STAFF, BUT THERE IS NO EXISTING TASK FORCE.
UM, COMMISSIONER MOS, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 59 SECONDS.
UH, COMMISSIONER SACKER, YOU HAVE, FORGIVE ME.
DID BONNIE HILL SAY SHE'S DONE? OH, EXCUSE ME.
YEAH, NO, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE EMAIL LIST.
I WILL BE REACHING OUT TO YOU ALL TO GET THE NAMES YOU HAVE.
I DO HAVE SOME NAMES OF, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THAT I ALREADY REACHED OUT TO, BUT I'M HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO ADD TO THAT SUMMER.
UH, ARE YOU GOOD ON THAT? COMMISSIONER HILL? OKAY.
SO WE WILL NOW MOVE TO COMMISSIONER SACKER.
YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 19 SECONDS FOR ME.
JUST A, JUST A QUICK CALL OUT FOR ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
THAT WAS THE REPORT THAT WAS SENT OUT BY, UH, CHAIR KY.
THIS IS OUR PURPOSE, RIGHT? SO THIS IS WHY WE'RE ON THIS COMMISSION.
EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO, WHILE IT'S AWESOME, IS EXTRA.
SO I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD TAKE A LOOK BACK AT 2023 AND REALLY BE PROUD OF WHAT WE'VE DONE AS WELL.
BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SUGGEST PERHAPS THAT, UH, PERHAPS IN THE NEXT MEETING WE HAVE A LINE ITEM TO DISCUSS.
AND I'LL ALSO SEND IT AN AGENDA ITEM, UPDATING OUR PURPOSE.
BECAUSE ONLINE WE, IT JUST SAYS TO ACT AS AN ADVISORY BODY TO THE CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL, UM, IN COMPLYING WITH REQUIREMENTS OF STATE LAW AND CITY ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE OPERATION OF ANIMAL SHELTER.
SO I JUST WANT TO DO ONE LAST THING AS OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK EACH OF YOU, UH, JUST A BASIC QUESTION AND PLEASE RESPOND YES OR NO IN YOUR OPINION.
ARE WE COMPLYING WITH ALL ELEMENTS OF CHAPTER SEVEN ANIMALS FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS CODE OF ORDINANCE? AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE LAST PART THAT I HAD, OR, YEAH, SO I MEAN THAT'S JUST THE, THE COPYING ON THE CAKE IF YOU WILL.
SO, UH, COMMISSIONER GARY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 50 SECONDS.
UM, YIELD COMMISSIONER CASEY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 59.
ARE WE ALLOWED TO KNOW, UM, HOW MANY GUESTS ARE WATCHING THIS TODAY OUTSIDE THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM? WE CAN TAKE A LOOK.
WELL, THE CURSOR'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT'S FINE.
SO, UM, WITH GUESTS, JUST SO YOU KNOW, THIS IS PUBLICLY RECORDED AND THEY ARE WATCHING, WE HAVE EIGHT WATCHING LIVE.
UM, BUT IT IS POSTED ON THE CITY OF DALLAS WEBSITE.
SO THAT
AND ALSO IF, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE LIKE HOPPED IN AND OUT, LIKE WE TRACK THAT AND THAT TOO FOR FUTURE.
JUST 'CAUSE I'D LIKE THE PUBLIC TO GET MORE INVOLVED, ESPECIALLY AS WE LIKE, REFINE OUR PURPOSE AND WELL, IT'LL REPORT, BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEETINGS ATTENDEE, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE MEETING.
I JUST, I JUST WANNA KNOW, LIKE IF WE CAN BE TOLD, YOU KNOW, OH, THIS TIME WE HAVE 30 PEOPLE WATCHING AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OR, OR HAD MAYBE DURING THE COURSE OF THE MEETING, THAT KIND OF THING.
OR MAYBE AT THE BEGINNING, LIKE IN THE MINUTES OR SOMETHING FOR THE NEXT ONE WE COULD, THAT COULD BE IN THERE OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, 26 PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WATCHED PART, ALL THE MEETINGS.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD GO IN THE MINUTES, BUT I CAN GET YOU LIST.
COMMISSIONER LASTER, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 16 SECONDS REMAIN.
UM, JUST ONE QUESTION, JUST KIND OF FOLLOWING UP.
UH, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LOOKING FOR EXTRA, UM, VETERINARIANS TO DO SPAYED AND NEUTERING, UM, ARE THE OPERATIONS THAT ARE, UH, CONDUCTED ONLY WEEKDAYS OR, YOU KNOW, IS GOING LOOKING IN THE FUTURE? IS THAT POSSIBLE TO LIKE HAVE OPERATIONS ON WEEKENDS OR? WE CURRENTLY DO SPEND SEVEN DAYS A YEAR.
WE HAVE, UM, YEAH, WE DO SEVEN DAYS.
UH, COMMISSIONER FAULKNER, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND 25 SECONDS REMAINING.
WHAT'S THE LOCATION OF THESE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK LOCATIONS THAT, THAT WHERE NO ONE SHOWS UP? WHERE ARE THEY? GREAT QUESTION.
UM, WE HAVE OUR SPAY N NETWORK HAS, UM, THEIR CRANDALL LOCATION.
UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE THE BUCKNER AVENUE, WHICH IS THE
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DALLAS LOCATION.I'M GONNA GIVE THE REST TO SHELBY THOUGH 'CAUSE SHE NEEDS THESE
MAKE SURE GON DOGS, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND THREE SECONDS REMAINING.
UM, I JUST HAD ANOTHER COMMENT OR SOMETHING TO UH, ASK MARY MARTIN, WOULD YOU BE MORE COMFORTABLE, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO CERTAIN VETERINARIANS AND ASKING FOR TIME TO VOLUNTEER AT DAS AND SO FORTH, AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR, UM, A VETERINARY AND STUFF LIKE THAT FOR SURGERY AND SO FORTH.
I MEAN, WOULD YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH WHEN I WAS COMING TO, WITH YOU TO ACCOMPANY YOU OR ARE YOU OPEN FOR THAT CERTAIN I'M NOT UNCOMFORTABLE.
I, I AM NOT TALKING TO DOCTORS ABOUT VOLUNTEERING SERVICES FOR SPAY NEUTER.
UH, AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF PRIVATE PRACTICE VETERINARIANS ARE NOT HIGH QUALITY, HIGH VOLUME SPAY NEUTER SURGEONS.
SO GETTING THE, THEY'RE DOING TWO OR THREE A DAY THAT IS NOT GONNA HELP US.
SO WE, WE NEED, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SURGEONS OR THE SPECIALTY IN MY, MY HUMBLE OPINION IS A SPECIALTY TO DO HIGH QUALITY, HIGH VOLUMES UTER, WE NEED TO BE SPEAKING TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO I'M SPEAKING TO ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO HELP US WITH AFTER HOURS CARE.
AND, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO, TO FIND NOW, NOW WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIGH QUALITY, HIGH VOLUME SPAY UTER SURGEONS.
BUT, UM, AND ABSOLUTELY WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE COMPANY.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, IS, UM, IS A AND M COMMERCE, SINCE IT IS CLOSE AN OPTION FOR VOLUNTEERS, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THESE, UH, UH, STUDENTS ARE LOOKING FOR HOURS AND STUFF THAT THEY NEED TO DO.
I MEAN, CAN WE REACH OUT TO THEM POSSIBLY? WE CERTAINLY CAN.
AND OUR, OUR MEDICAL, MICHAEL BUR WHO IS ON THE PHONE, HE DOES REACH OUT TO ALL OF THE OKAY.
THE COLLEGES THAT HAVE, HAVE OKAY.
AND LIKE ACTUALLY GOES AND VISITS ON THE RECRUITMENT DAYS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
JUST THINKING OF MORE RESOURCES.
BUT, BUT ONCE AGAIN, IF I MAY ADD, JUST KEEPING IN MIND THAT A STUDENT COMES OUT OF SCHOOL, UNLESS THEY, IN VERY RARE EXCEPTION, A SPAY NEUTER FOR A STUDENT MIGHT TAKE MORE ON A LARGE DOG, WHICH THE MAJORITY OF THE ANIMALS ARE IN OUR CARE WILL TAKE MORE THAN AN HOUR AND A HALF ON AN EIGHT HOUR DAY.
AND SO WE REALLY NEED TO FIND THOSE SURGEONS WHO HAVE MADE THIS A SPECIALTY IN THEIR LIFE.
AND, AND, UH, CAN COME IN AND CUT THE NUMBERS.
'CAUSE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT 35 IS WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO AND WE NEED 65, YOU CAN SEE THAT, THAT WE REALLY NEED THOSE, THOSE SPECIALISTS.
I'M HAPPY TO HELP STUDENTS LEARN, BUT, UH, THAT IS NOT AT THE DETRIMENT OF THE ANIMAL CENTER CARE.
UM, COMMISSIONER SANDERS, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 36 SECONDS FOR ME.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY I'M JUST OVERWHELMED BY THAT NUMBER.
JUST MAKES IT CHALLENGES SO MUCH MORE REAL AND SOME CONTEXT.
IT GIVES US A LOT OF CONTEXT FOR THOSE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE IN THE SPAIN AND COMMUNITY, WHICH IS, SO THANK YOU.
AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING I HAVE TO SAY IS I GOT AN EMAIL FROM FRIENDS, UH, BODI, I GUESS FRIENDS.
AND THERE ARE FOUR ADOPTION EVENTS THIS WEEKEND IN DALLAS.
UH, I SAW PETCO, PATAGONIA, TESLA, AND SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SO I'M GONNA GO TO THE PATAGONIA ONE JUST TO CHECK IT OUT.
I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN VOLUNTEER STILL, BUT I'M GONNA GO AND SEE ALL THE NEW THINGS AND MAYBE AS COMMISSIONERS WE CAN ALL MAKE IT A APPOINTMENT IN THE NEXT MONTH TO VISIT AT LEAST ONE OR TRY IT OUT.
AND THEY'RE ALL ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
IF YOU WANNA SHARE THOSE EVENTS, PLEASE DO.
THE PATAGONIA ONE WAS ACTUALLY COORDINATED BY SARAH, UM, JONES.
SO SHOUT OUT TO HER FOR PUTTING THAT ONE TOGETHER.
THE TESLA EVENT IS GONNA BE HUGE.
WE'VE HAD TO OPEN UP ADDITIONAL SPOTS FOR FOSTERS TO COME.
AND THEY ARE EXPECTING A 600 PERSON.
UM, AND COMMISSIONER SIDE, YOU'RE OUT OF TIME, BUT WE'RE GONNA MOVE VERY QUICKLY TO CHAIR BOSKY AND THEN WE CAN MAKE A MOTION TO OPEN UP FOR OPEN DISCUSSION.
WE WE CAN GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION.
UM, I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE TIMELINE FOR THE MARKETING COMMUNICATION PLAN AND IF THAT'S THE COMPONENT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN OR IF THAT'S SEPARATE.
SO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THE, THE TARGET IS MAY.
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AND SO THE SPRING, THE COMMUNICATIONS, WE HAVE A NEW COMM PERSONS STARTING.THE OFFER SHOULD GO OUT TODAY.
VERBAL HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED AND EXPECTING HIM TO BE ABLE TO START FEBRUARY.
AND SO HOPEFULLY HE'LL HAVE, HE HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN PREVIOUS FOLKS THAT WE'VE HAD.
SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT HE'LL BE ABLE TO DO A MARKETING PLANS AGAIN, IF YOU EVER WANNA HELP US TOGETHER.
I KNOW, I THOUGHT WE WERE MAKING PROGRESS WITH THE LAST PO AND THEN SHE LEFT.
I WAS LIKE, IS SARAH THE NEW P LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING FOR THE MOMENT? BUT YES, WE HAVE A NEW PERSON STARTING.
UM, WE ALSO ADDED ANOTHER MARKETING COORDINATOR TO THE TEAM, SO THAT'S NOT GONNA BE A THREE PERSON TEAM.
WE'VE GOT NEW MARKETING COORDINATOR STARTS FEBRUARY 3RD.
WELL YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.
UM, WHEN I SEE THE MEDIA SHEET IN THESE PRESENTATIONS, IT'S HELPFUL, BUT IT, IT COMES BACK TO USING COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGICALLY.
RIGHT? SO GREAT THAT WE WERE ON FOX FOUR AND ALL THIS STUFF, BUT DO WE SEE A SPIKE IN FOSTERS? DO WE SEE A SPIKE IN ADOPTIONS? DO WE SEE A SPIKE IN INQUIRIES? LIKE THESE ARE ANALYTICS LIKE THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND TO UNDERSTAND CAUSE AND EFFECT.
RIGHT? OTHERWISE, IT'S, IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH IT BECAUSE THE POINT OF MEDIA RELATIONS AND THE POINT OF USING MEDIA IS THAT YOU ARE USING THIS MAG, THIS MEGAPHONE SAY, OKAY, LIKE I'VE GOT THIS MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE REACHED.
AND SO HOW DOES THAT IMPACT US? SO IF YOU HAVE A FIVE MINUTE, YOU KNOW, SPOT ON A GOOD DAY, AND YOU'RE ABLE TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM Q AND A WITH THEM, WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT? LIKE THAT TO ME IS THE ONLY VALUE MEDIA RELATIONS FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS BECAUSE THIS IS JUST TOO BIG OF AN OPERATION.
THERE'S TOO MUCH HAPPENING AND LITERALLY LIVES ARE AT STAKE.
AND SO THE MEDIA RELATIONS SIDE, IT'S GREAT.
BUT I MEAN, THOSE ARE STILL IMPORTANT PIECES TO UNDERSTAND, BUT UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER SIDE TO THAT AND WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LEADING TO.
AND THEN ARE WE BEING PROACTIVE OR ARE THEY COMING TO US FOR THESE MEDIA HITS? BOTH.
SO YEAH, SO UNDERSTANDING WHICH ONES WE ARE PUSHING AND ACTUALLY GETTING TRACTION ON VERSUS WHICH ONES THEY'RE COMING TO US FOR AND GET, LIKE, THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT AND BUILDING OUT YOUR MARKETING COMMUNICATION STRATEGY.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THIS THEN TIES IN WITH YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS AND THEN UNDERSTANDING ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS AND THEN WHICH SPECIFIC POSTS GET MORE LIKES AND MORE ENGAGEMENT.
AND THEN HOW DOES THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, GO BACK TO FOSTERS AND ADOPTION.
SO IF THE NUMBERS ARE ALWAYS TELLING US A STORY, THE NUMBERS, AND THIS TELLS A STORY, THE NUMBERS THROUGH MEDIA RELATIONS, THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, THEY'RE ALL TELLING THIS A STORY.
SO WE JUST NEED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING WHAT THAT STORY IS.
AND WE DON'T, I, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK COMMISSIONERS NEED TO SEE ALL THE NUMBERS NECESSARILY, BUT IT'S MORE, I THINK WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT STORY.
UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL BECAUSE ALL OF THIS IS EFFORT AND TIME AND MONEY THAT COMES OUT OF THE ORGANIZATION.
SO HOW IS IT ACTUALLY BENEFITING ME? CAN I SPEAK TO THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT? UM, SO I'VE BEEN ON VOLUNTEERING THERE ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF YEARS.
AND I HAVE A, UH, MY SOCIAL MEDIA THAT IS IN DIRECT SUPPORT OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, WHICH IS ABOUT, UH, 500,000 TO 2 MILLION PEOPLE A MONTH.
AND, UM, I'VE BEEN PART OF LIKE WHEN WE WERE ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA FLATLINE, UM, CLEAR THE SHELTERS DOESN'T SEE MUCH OF A BUMP.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT TV STUFF REALLY DOES STUFF.
BUT I DO SEE, UM, BECAUSE I GET FEEDBACK TOO, AND LIKE WHEN I WENT ON THE NEWS, UH, AND I DID FIVE MINUTES ON FOSTERING ON GOOD MORNING TEXAS OR WHATEVER IT IS AT WFAA AND, UM, I HAD ZERO PEOPLE WRITE ME AND SAY, HEY, I JUST SAW YOU ON BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
I REPOSTED THAT AND GENERATED BUZZ.
BUT I REALLY THINK THAT, UM, WITH THE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT IT'S A LOT ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO WHEN THOSE OF US THAT HAVE BIGGER FOLLOWINGS OR HAVE SOMETHING THAT GOES A LITTLE BIT VIRAL, UM, THAT THOSE ARE A MUCH MORE SUCCESSFUL AT RECRUITMENT BASED ON THE MESSAGES THAT WE GET AND EVEN THE INTERACTIONS AND HOW MUCH COMMENTARY AND HOW IT KEEPS PUSHING.
THEN TV, I'M REALLY, I JUST THINK THAT LIKE TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
SO IT'S, IT'S GOOD AND IT SHOWS LIKE, OH, CHANNEL FOUR IS STILL SOMETHING EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT, BUT I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS CAN SPEAK TO THAT TOO, BUT I KNOW JUST FROM THE, THE BIG FEATURES WE'VE HAD THAT WE DON'T REALLY SEE LIKE, OH, THE NEXT DAY IT WAS PACKED.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT IN MULTIPLE OCCASIONS OVER SEVERAL YEARS.
AND WE DEFINITELY WILL BE WORKING ON A MARKETING PLAN WHEN WE HAVE THE NEW PUBLIC INFORMATION COORDINATOR, BUT ALSO IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE IS A WHOLE PILLAR ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING AND THERE ARE ANALYTICS THAT WILL BE TRACKING IN THAT.
SO WE CAN CERTAINLY WORK THOSE IN.
YEAH, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL BECAUSE AGAIN, I MEAN, 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY FROM A PERSONAL STANDPOINT, THERE'S CERTAIN REACH AND, AND THAT, AND THEN FROM AN ORGANIZATIONAL STANDPOINT, THERE IS A DIFFERENT REACH AND YEAH, SOCIAL MEDIA HAS CHANGED THE GAME, BUT JUST UNDERSTANDING THAT, BECAUSE THEN IF TV IS
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NOT GETTING US, YOU KNOW, A CHANGE IN ADOPTIONS, THEN YOU CHANGE WHAT IS BEING COMMUNICATED ON TV.SO IF THAT'S MORE EDUCATIONAL, IF THAT'S MORE AWARENESS, THAT'S MORE BRAND AWARENESS.
LIKE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING, THIS IS HOW WE'RE BENEFITING THE COMMUNITY.
IF YOU'RE A FOSTER PARENT, LIKE IF IT BECOMES MORE BE BENEFICIAL TO USE THAT MEDIUM TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION INSTEAD OF, HEY, WE NEED YOU TO FOSTER ADOPT.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S STILL IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT AND THEY STILL HAVE RELEVANT PLACE BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL REACHING THE NEEDS OF HOUSEHOLDS.
KIND OF, BUT UNDERSTANDING HOW TO UTILIZE IT FOR OUR BENEFIT IS, I THINK WHAT'S CRITICAL HERE.
UM, I I DID WANNA ASK REALLY QUICKLY ABOUT THE LOST AND FOUND THING.
I MEAN, IT'S A REAL, I MEAN, IN A PERFECT WORLD, IF SOMEONE COULD TAKE THEIR PICTURE AND SCAN IT AND BE LIKE, MISSING THIS PET, THIS IS MY, YOU KNOW, LOVED ONE THAT IS MISSING.
AND THEN YOU CAN LIKE SCAN IT INTO A SYSTEM AND THEN YOU CAN, THE SYSTEM WILL TELL YOU THAT IT'S AT THIS PLACE OR THIS PLACE OR THIS PLACE.
I'M SPEAKING MORE VERY ASPIR, VERY ASPIRATIONALLY HERE.
BUT IF THERE WAS A WORLD IN WHICH WE COULD WORK WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNERS, GET SOME KIND OF A GRANT, CREATE A PLATFORM, FORT WORTH'S BEEN IN THE NEWS A LOT.
WE WERE IN, UM, MEXICO AND GETTING NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT FORT WORTH WANTING TO, UH, GET FOSTERS.
AND IT IS LIKE DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET, YOU KNOW, FOSTERS LIKE, EVEN IF IT'S FOR THE FEW DAYS YOU GET, IT'S JUST LIKE DURING THE COLD SNAP, WHATEVER IT IS.
SO WE GET IT LIKE IT IS, WE'RE DEALING WITH SOMETHING AT A VERY BIG SCALE HERE, BUT WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS FOR THE MISSING PETS.
LIKE IS THERE A WAY TO WORK WITH THEM TO CREATE OR MAYBE BUILDING ON THIS PETCO THING, BUT LIKE BUILDING ON LIKE, YOU KNOW, TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S ALREADY THERE.
SOMETHING THAT ALLOWS US TO MORE EASILY HELP PEOPLE WHOSE VOICE WAY THEY GONNA DS IT NEEDS LIKE AI AND VERY GO AHEAD.
BUT ON THE, ON THE PETCO, BLAH BLAH.
SO, SO THAT'S THE EXCITING THING ABOUT IT.
THEY'RE CREATING THAT PLATFORM.
SO, AND IT IS BASED ON LIKE FACIAL RECOGNITION OF OKAY, THAT'S, SO EVERY ANIMAL THAT COMES INTO DAS, UM, THAT'S A STRAY.
WHEN WE UPLOAD THAT PHOTO, IT AUTOMATICALLY GOES AGAINST ANY POSTS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PETCO, LOVE LOST OF MISSING PETS, AND IT WILL ACTUALLY MATCH.
AND WE HAVE ACTUALLY HAD REUNIFICATIONS BECAUSE SOMEONE POSTED THEIR ANIMAL ON PETCO LOVE LOST, WE TOOK AN ARAY ANIMAL AND THOSE PICTURES MATCHED WOW.
AND THEY'RE AUTOMATICALLY NOTIFIED.
SO THAT'S WHY WE REALLY WANT EVERYONE TO POST THEIR ANIMALS THERE, BECAUSE IF I LOSE MY CAT TODAY AND POST MY ANIMAL THERE AND SOMEONE BRINGS IT INTO DAS TOMORROW, IT WILL MATCH IT.
AND IT IS ASTONISH ASTONISHINGLY ACCURATE.
UM, UH, I THINK THERE ARE SOME YOUTUBE VIDEOS YOU CAN WATCH ON IT AND IT'S LIKE KIND OF MIND BLOWING.
LIKE THE ONE THAT THEY DID AT A MOST RECENT PRESENTATION WAS FOR A BLACK CAT.
I MEAN, BLACK CATS LOOK LIKE BLACK CATS AND IT LIKE PULLED IT UP INSTANTANEOUSLY.
SO, UM, THE OTHER COOL THING IS BUILDING ON THE TECHNOLOGY IS THEY ARE PARTNERING WITH RING THE RING DOORBELLS AT THEM NEXT DOOR, AND NOW THEY ARE THIS YEAR HUGE.
I DON'T EVEN WANNA BE IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS GOING AFTER FACEBOOK TO SEE IF THEY CAN START MERGING ALL THOSE PHOTOS THAT ARE CASE POSTED ON FACEBOOK LOSS CON COMPLICATED NEXTDOOR, UH, RING AND NEXTDOOR AND RING HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED.
THEY WILL ALSO MATCH AGAINST WHAT'S POSTED ON.
SO ANYBODY COMING INTO THE SHELTER RIGHT NOW LOOKING FOR THEIR LOST PET WHO HAS NOT FOUND IT, WE WILL IMMEDIATELY HAVE THEM POST ONTO PETCO LOVE LOST.
SO THAT, THAT WAY IF IT DOES COME IN LATER, IT WILL, IT WILL DO A MATCH.
AND THEN ALSO WE DO THE, THE, WE DO WANT PETCO LOVE LOST TO TAKE OVER LOST AND FOUND FOR ALL SHELTERS.
AND THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU RIGHT.
AND THAT BECAUSE IT'S ALL, THERE'S ACTUALLY A BLOCK IN LOS ANGELES, AND I KNOW WE, WE DON'T, BUT DEPENDING ON WHICH WAY THE DOG RUNS, HE COULD END UP IN 11 DIFFERENT SHELTERS AND SOME OF THOSE SHELTERS AREN'T EVEN.
AND, AND THAT'S A, A PRIMARILY SPANISH SPEAKING NEIGHBORHOOD THAT, THAT THAT BLOCK IS.
AND SOME OF THOSE 11 SHELTERS DON'T EVEN HAVE, UM, SPANISH SPEAKING SERVICES.
SO ANYWAY, SEEING GREAT SUCCESS AND SEEING GREAT SUCCESS IN TUCSON TWO.
AND JUST TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW, THERE'S 13 MINUTES REMAINING, SO I WOULD GO AHEAD AND GET IN YOUR LAST REMARKS.
NOW I KNOW CHAIR BASTI WOULD LIKE TO END WITH SOME CLOSING REMARKS.
UM, AND COMMISSIONERS ONLINE, WE'RE HAVING AN ISSUE WITH THE CURSOR ON OUR PRESENTING COMPUTER.
SO IF YOU'VE BEEN PUTTING ANY COMMENTS, I'M GETTING THE NOTIFICATIONS, BUT NOT SEEING ANY TEXTS.
SO YOU'RE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE LAST LIKE
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10 MINUTES AS WELL.UM, I JUST HAD THREE QUESTIONS.
IF YOU, WE WILL TALK OFFLINE, BUT, UM, FOR PAUL LOOSE, OR I'M SORRY, WHOEVER IT WAS WITH THE LOOSE DOG HEAT MAP, WHO ARE THE TOP THREE DISTRICTS? BECAUSE I THINK ONE OF 'EM, THE CHAIR IS NOT HERE TODAY OR THE COMMISSIONER IS HERE TODAY.
THAT GOES BACK TO MY CLOSING REMARKS.
UM, RFPS, MELISSA, WE ARE YOUR CONDUIT TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS KNOW THIS, BUT THERE'S BEEN AN RFP THAT HAS BEEN SITTING IN PROCUREMENT WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS FOR ONE YEAR.
AND A LOT OF THESE CHALLENGES THAT, UM, DAS FACES IS SOMETIMES JUST YOUR BUREAUCRACY.
I'M NOT BLAMING CITY OF DALLAS, I'M BLAMING BUREAUCRACY IN GENERAL, BUT IT JUST SITS THERE.
IF WE CAN CALL OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND SAY, IN ORDER TO DO X WE NEED TO GET THIS OUT OF PROCUREMENT.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT BRIEFLY? YEAH.
HOW DO WE DO THAT
WHAT, HOW CAN WE FACILITATE THAT MOVING FORWARD? ASK THEIR COUNCIL MEMBERS? WILL YOU SAY WHAT THAT IS? YEAH.
SO VILLAGE FAIR IS THE PLACE WHERE FCPA HAD THEIR MEDICAL CLINIC AND UM, WHEN, WHEN THEY WANTED TO GO TO 10 YEARS, A 10 YEAR LEASE, WE NEEDED TO GO TO A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL.
UM, AND THAT'S BEEN IN PROCESS FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.
AND, AND, AND THE LONGER IT GOES, THE LESS INTEREST THAT WE HAVE, THE MORE, UM, THE MORE THAT WE NEED FOR ACTUALLY PAYING FOR SECURITY AND, AND LANDSCAPE FOR LIKE THAT'S COMING OUT OF OUR BUDGET CAN BE HELPING THE ANIMALS.
SO I UM,
WE HAVE ONE OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, IS ENGAGED BUT THEY'RE
AND THE PROBLEM IS I WOULD LOVE TO SEND YOU GUYS AN EMAIL AND SAY, HEY, CALL.
BUT I CAN'T 'CAUSE IT TOOMA AND I CAN ONLY, RIGHT.
SO IF WE COULD JUST HAVE A LITTLE BLURB, THREE TO FOUR SENTENCES FROM JILLIAN TO THE COMMISSIONERS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND THEN WE CAN CALL OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND SAY, WE'RE PAYING MONEY ON THIS.
JUST, UH, ALSO DANGEROUS DOG ORDINANCE UPDATES.
SO REALLY QUICK EVERYBODY, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THEN WE READY, READY FOR CAN I JUST,
SO FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANNA THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE TODAY.
EVERY ONE OF YOU, UM, ESPECIALLY BONNIE, ELIZABETH AND GREG BECAUSE YOU GUYS SHOWED UP AND SHOWING UP IS SO IMPORTANT AND LISTENING TO THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
I ALSO WANNA SAY I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR WELL THOUGHT OUT COMMENTS.
YOU GUYS, IF I'M PREPARED, YOU READ AHEAD OF TIME.
I WOULD LOVE EVERY MEETING TO HAVE GOALS FOR SOME OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
SO THEN THE NEXT MEETING, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, I KNOW LIKE THIS SEEMS LIKE SUCH A CHALLENGE, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS BAY NEUTER, BUT DOING THINGS HERE AND THERE ARE SO HELPFUL.
I'M JUST GONNA ASK A SHOW OF HANDS.
WHO HERE, UM, HAS BROUGHT THEIR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER TO THE SHELTER? ANYONE? I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A GREAT GOAL.
AND BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING TO GET THEM IN, MELISSA IS A FANTASTIC HOST.
YOU ALL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS THAT I WANNA ADDRESS HERE NOW PUBLICLY THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS KNOWS ABOUT AT THE SHELTER AND YET WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY BOND MONEY.
SO THAT IS FIRST LET'S SHOW, YOU KNOW, UM, THE AREAS WHERE YOU HAVE SEVEN PEOPLE WORKING IN A CLOSET ESSENTIALLY.
AND SO THAT WOULD BE MY FIRST GOAL.
NUMBER TWO TASK FORCE COMMISSIONS.
I WILL BE MEETING WITH, UH, MELISSA AND ANY OF HER TEAM MEMBERS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IS 2024 ABOUT.
I WOULD PROPOSE AND I'D, I'D LIKE YOUR GUYS SUPPORT ON A SPAY NEUTER, UM, TASK FORCE.
AND I WOULD LIKE, UH, BONNIE TO CHAIR THAT IF POSSIBLE.
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ARE TOMA CONCERNS AND THERE'S OTHER THINGS AND HOW WE LABEL THIS THROUGH THE COMMISSION.BUT I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE DOWN THE ORDINANCE, UM, TASK FORCE.
'CAUSE WE DID WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO.
WE KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO PRESENT NOW.
WE JUST NEED TO GET 'EM IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL.
WHEN I SAY WE, I'M SORRY I'M TALKING ABOUT DAS I'M NOT TRYING TO UM, ER ANYTHING.
BUT I THINK THAT THOSE COMMITTEES, IF I COULD ASK EVERYONE TO RAISE THEIR HAND AND COMMIT TO SERVING ON ONE OF THOSE COMMITTEES, UM, I WOULD REALLY, REALLY, UM, APPRECIATE IT BECAUSE SPAY NEUTER, I MEAN MARY JUST TOUCHED ON THE ISSUES OUT THERE.
WE, STATE OF TEXAS HAS SO MANY ISSUES IN TERMS OF JUST BRINGING A VET DOWN FOR A WEEKEND THAT DOES HIGH.
UM, YOU KNOW, UM, HIGH, UM, VOLUME, EXCUSE ME, SPAY NEUTER.
UM, I KNOW COUNTY OF EL PASO IS BRINGING OVER FOUR, UM, VETERINARIANS THAT ARE FROM MEXICO AND THEY'RE KILLING IT AND THEY'RE SEEING NUMBERS.
BUT I'M JUST, THERE'S SO MANY CHALLENGES.
BUT I THINK THAT'S PERFECT COMMITTEE WORK.
UM, AND THEN I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT I WOULD LOVE, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO MEET, I KNOW UM, STEPHANIE IS DOING STEPHANIE, COMMISSIONER STEPHANIE, UM, CASEY IS DOING A FANTASTIC JOB OF MEETING WITH ALL AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOUR TIME, TREASURE AND TALENTS THAT WE CAN ALL COME TOGETHER TO SUPPORT DAS? UM, AND I'M THERE FOR IT.
AND IF ALL OF US CAN MAKE SOME SIMPLE GOALS, I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND I FEEL LIKE IT TAKES AWAY FROM THESE, UM, INCREDIBLE, UH, CHALLENGES THAT WE ALL FACE.
AND I WOULD JUST END ON, I WOULD LOVE, UM, YOUR GUYS' IDEAS AT SOME POINT ON A BIG, BIG FIX DAY.
I KNOW THE CITY OF DALLAS USED TO DO IT, UM, THROUGH SOME OF THEIR PARTNERSHIPS AND IT WAS BRINGING EVERYBODY TOGETHER.
UM, WE WOULD GET TRANSPORTATION TO BRING THEM TO THE AREA.
THERE WERE SO MANY VETS THERE, OVER 600 DOGS AND CATS SPAY NEUTER IN ONE DAY.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WILL EVEN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
BUT YOU KNOW, UM, LOOKING AT THESE OTHER IDEAS, I REALLY THINK, UM, THE UH, SPAY NEUTER TASK FORCE COMMITTEE, IF WE CAN HAVE ONE, COULD BE HELPFUL.
'CAUSE WE JUST WANNA HELP YOU GUYS.
AND I'M BRINGING CUPCAKES TOMORROW, SO IF ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS WANNA JOIN ME, UM, AND DONATIONS AND SO FORTH.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? OKAY.
THAT PERFECT AND REALLY QUICK CLAP TO JILLIAN.
THE 9:00 AM YEAH, THE THREE HOURS GONNA BE FIVE.